ND555 connection

No you will need the Naim App, sorry. Although my room is not a WiFi blackspot I paid the guy who services our house alarm to run an Ethernet cable round the side of the house. It threads in through an air brick, to a Cisco switch, then to streamer, Core etc. It cost about £140 in plastic conduit, compared to ND555, peanuts.

I had a similar issue with a WiFi blackspot, which meant that using the Naim app to control things in the music room was intermittent, at best.

Although I have an ethernet cable running from the router to a Cisco switch in the music room, that doesn't address the problem, obviously.

I dabbled with WiFi extenders, which didn't improve things, and now have an Apple Extreme base station hooked into the router, and an Airport Express sitting by the equipment rack, which has resulted in a 100% reliable connection to my iPad.

Both the Apple units were sourced on fleabay, at minimum cost, and I would recommend this to anyone with similar WiFi issues.

Doh ......... currently the wifi signal is very feeble .... the Naim app just about works...ok... I will move my router in my lounge - so it is directly under my music room - this should give me a much improved signal.....and make the naim app happy.... :-)

I have shielded CAT 7 ethernet ........... I currently use a little Zyxel 5 port switch - that then connects to NDS.....sounds great at the moment. I may upgrade to the much lauded Cisco 2960 switch.... does this have an internal psu?

Richieroo posted:

I have shielded CAT 7 ethernet ........... I currently use a little Zyxel 5 port switch - that then connects to NDS.....sounds great at the moment. I may upgrade to the much lauded Cisco 2960 switch.... does this have an internal psu?

Yes most do have an internal supply, however, beware that there is a version which doesn’t. I recently bought the cisco 2960g  and found the upgrade to be quite substantial. In hindsight I think my cheap switch may have been the final bottleneck in my set up.

The new streamers have a nice colour screen, and a swanky Zigbee remote control which works really well, without you having to point it as the streamer. Bizarrely, it does not control the UPnP input, so you need the app. Sounds like the best bet would be to sort out your WiFi sooner rather than later. The Apple stuff is a great way to do this cheaply with simple setup, although more recent devices will probably give you better performance. 

By the way, nearly all 2960s have the PSU built in. It’s a very good PSU, and not electrically noisy, so I wouldn’t worry about it. 

Sigh ........ ok wi fi upheaval here we come.........

Richieroo posted:

I have shielded CAT 7 ethernet ........... I currently use a little Zyxel 5 port switch - that then connects to NDS.....sounds great at the moment. I may upgrade to the much lauded Cisco 2960 switch.... does this have an internal psu?

AirPort Express or similar non-Apple into the Zyxel switch might be easier/better than moving the router, no?

Nick

Moving the router is not too bad - as I have 2 Asus routers that intercommunicate - one in the loft at one side of the house and one at the far end of the lounge - all I need to do is move it in my lounge - so it sits directly under my little music room...... this should give me a better signal. Fortunately I have an ethernet socket in the wall in the correct position. I was using Naim app last night with the current set up........ but my phone was struggling - for signal and it bombed a couple of times.

Having two routers does not sound ideal as they will both be giving out IP addresses and causing confusion. You should only have one router. We had an Asus, well reviewed, but it was useless. So we put the Virgin box into modem mode and bought an AirPort Extreme. We also have an AirPort express upstairs, with a wired connnection to the Extreme, and get rock solid WiFi all over the house. The Apple stuff is a bit old now but really easy to use and works well. 

hungryhalibut posted:

Having two routers does not sound ideal as they will both be giving out IP addresses and causing confusion. You should only have one router. We had an Asus, well reviewed, but it was useless. So we put the Virgin box into modem mode and bought an AirPort Extreme. We also have an AirPort express upstairs, with a wired connnection to the Extreme, and get rock solid WiFi all over the house. The Apple stuff is a bit old now but really easy to use and works well. 

This really is a simple and inexpensive and highly effective solution.

If you can't run a cable between the 2 Apple devices, they work pretty well wirelessly, with the second device being set to "extend" the wifi network created by the first.  This is what I do, and get consistent speeds off the second device equal to the broadband speed coming into my house.  

Bart posted:

hungryhalibut posted:

Having two routers does not sound ideal as they will both be giving out IP addresses and causing confusion. You should only have one router. We had an Asus, well reviewed, but it was useless. So we put the Virgin box into modem mode and bought an AirPort Extreme. We also have an AirPort express upstairs, with a wired connnection to the Extreme, and get rock solid WiFi all over the house. The Apple stuff is a bit old now but really easy to use and works well. 

This really is a simple and inexpensive and highly effective solution.

If you can't run a cable between the 2 Apple devices, they work pretty well wirelessly, with the second device being set to "extend" the wifi network created by the first.  This is what I do, and get consistent speeds off the second device equal to the broadband speed coming into my house.  

This has worked well for me too in the past. It certainly gives speeds considerably higher than the broadband coming into my house, but at a miserly 4.5mb, that’s setting the bar pretty low. Worth bearing in mind that any such range extender run without a wired Ethernet connection will slow your whole LAN down, although it may still be fast enough. For a better solution where a wire is not possible, one of the newer Mesh setups might be worth a look. 

I pay for 75Mb up and down, and get that on wifi throughout my home with this setup. So if it's slowing things down, it's not reached that 75 threshold.  I'm getting gigabit speed installed late next week and I'll have to see how it goes then.  Could be time then to install something more robust if I want those speeds on wifi as well.