Internet over mains plugs

Posted by: IOM Calling on 17 October 2016

Despite having reasonable internet radio coverage on a Mu-so the  queuing of  UnPn tracks from a Naim system for use on the Mu-so appears to break down after three or four when used over wi-fi. I am unsure of the cause of the problem but if the Mu-So is hard wired directly to the router it appears to work correctly. Hard wiring in it's usual location is only possible using an internet over mains plug so I ask if there are any recommendations about this type of product. 

Posted on: 18 October 2016 by Phil Harris
ChrisSU posted:
Phil Harris posted:

That's basically it - just make sure the AirPort Express is set up as an access point and not as a router (I can't remember how Apple list the different modes of operation in their setup wizard).

Phil

Bizarrely, Apple seem to have gone for plain English which a normal human being has some chance of understanding here....

If you're not using an Airport device as a Router, you select Router Mode > Off (Bridge mode)

The 3 options in Wireless settings are to Create, Join, or Extend a wireless network. 

All of these terms seem to mean the same in Apple instructions as they do when you look them up in an English dictionary, which seems to be something of a rarity these days.

How incredibly novel of them!

Phil

Posted on: 18 October 2016 by dave marshall

Well chaps, many thanks for all your assistance in resolving this wi-fi issue, your advice seems so straightforward and easy to understand, especially for a non savvy network person such as I...........................you've made it very difficult for me to fail in this. 

 

Posted on: 18 October 2016 by Gavin B
dave marshall posted:

...you've made it very difficult for me to fail in this. 

 

Uh-oh!

Posted on: 18 October 2016 by dave marshall
Gavin B posted:
dave marshall posted:

...you've made it very difficult for me to fail in this. 

 

Uh-oh!

Not saying it won't happen, more that I won't really have any excuse after all the good advice given.............watch this space! 

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by dave marshall

Well, who'd have thought?

Having experienced a lightbulb moment as to how I might easily (!!!) route an ethernet cable from my router at the front of the house to the music room at the rear, I've just spent the morning wrestling it, via the loft, to it's destination, beating off the spiders along the way.

I've also fired up an Airport Express, which has created it's own network in there, for the purposes of wi fi iPad control of the Naim app.

Blimey!

I don't know whether it's all in the mind or not, and having put in all that effort, it has to sound better.....................but it does!

So, "who'd have thought?"..............well, Phil Harris, David, James, Simon and others, who "bullied" me into trying this.............nice one chaps. 

 

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by Phil Harris

So it's all working now?

Phil

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by dave marshall
Phil Harris posted:

So it's all working now?

Phil

Strangely enough, given my lack of networking savvy, and fear of spiders, yes, it is............result!

I really can't say whether it does sound any better yet, but I have to think that it does, given the effort involved.

Thanks everyone for all the advice given.

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by Simon-in-Suffolk

great stuff 

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by Allan Milne

 

well done, I haven't had the brass ones yet to try this

 

... and it is a well-known fact, as evidenced in this forum, that

perceived SQ =

      some universal constant

times the monetary value of an upgrade

plus  the amount of effrort required to redress cables/run cables/rebuild supports/anything else

      all squared.

 

Allan

 

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by dave marshall

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by dave marshall
Simon-in-Suffolk posted:

great stuff 

Thus emboldened, I'm just off to take a pair of scissors to the incoming mains supply. 

Not really............................made you look though! 

Thanks for all the advice.

Posted on: 24 October 2016 by Allan Milne

 

Dave - ... but I'm with you

 

enjoy,

Allan