SuperUniti + UnitiServe

I have a superuniti, unitiserve, and an airport extreme in my house. Connect your unitiserve with an ethernet cable to your airport extreme ,then run your superuniti wireless. My dealer said not to have both units on the same power circuit since the switch mode power supply in the unitiserve can affect your amp.

You'll get better sound if you avoid wireless between the SuperUniti and the UnitiServe.

Obtain a wireless access point (or wireless network switch) ; connect both the SuperUniti and the UnitiServe with ethernet cable to the access point / switch. This way, your audio traffic will stay on a separate cabled network. You will only need to use cable locally in the room where your audio system is set up. The access point / switch (in your music room) will then communicate - wirelessly - with your network.

I have a Superuniti, Unitiserve and an NAS drive in our ski apartment

Superuniti and untiserve are connected ( wired) to a powered Netgear switch-which is in turn connected to an Apple airport express.

NAS drive is connected to another airport express located elsewhere is the apartment. Previously, did have it connected to the powered switch as well and there was no discernible difference in performance.

Both airport express' extend the wireless network from Netgear router providing the ADSL connection.

All works fine.

Geoff

It's certainly possible for wireless to work fine, but far from always the case.  I think that the best advice is that if it works . . . no dropouts . . . great.  If not, first thing to do is to blame the wifi

And one may find that it works sometimes and not others.  The neighbors microwave oven my interfere, etc etc.

Depends on many variables including local environment (how many people / neighbors close by also use wifi), layout of the home (wifi usually works better horizontally than vertically), interfering devices (microwave ovens and how well they are shielded; cordless phones), and the brand/model of wifi "transmitter."

why not just use a digital cable between the US and SU? Are these two pieces far apart?

Yes much simpler!  Just use a Naim DC-1 cable.  As such the OP would be using the uServe as a player, not a server, and control it with nServe. 

It will sound very good, but not quite as good as connecting via ethernet. Seems a shame to waste the streaming function of the SuperUniti. 

I've tried both with the UnitiServe and the UnitiLite, and UPnP over ethernet wins out. The difference is subtle, but convinces over time.

Jan

I've got my UnitiServe in the study (close to my NAS, on the same gigabit switch, and more importantly at the moment in a location where I can easly rip my CDs (working through a collection of about 2600)).

My SuperUniti is in the living room (on the other side of the house). Pulling cables through the house would be a hassle, and the while there is wireless coverage it's a bit marginal, so I've used powerline kit to run ethernet between the two rooms.

Thus far it's running pretty well - I'm getting about 160Mb/s across the link, and no drop outs. Plus I didn't have to spend a weekend on my back in the dirt underneath the house pulling cables.

Jono

I have a SU and US and use the DC-1.  Hard to believe Ethernet would be better than using a direct connection DC-1.  I also have it connected via Ethernet to use nServe app.