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Quote: Originally Posted by JJZolx What does several computers generating traffic have to do with the quality of the physical link? It's not the quality of the physical link. Throughput is dependent on processing. Routers and (smart) switches actually examine the data as it passes. (I have to point out that I don't mean "managed" switches: rather switches that "remember" MAC addresses and which...

Quote: Originally Posted by BobbyBee It seems the best will depend on which of these differences you consider to be the most important. Therefore; Pick one... Boom, or Radio? Why pick one when you can have both? I do have both (lucky beta tester), and if I had to choose one it would be the Boom. It's normal location is as bedroom clock and stereo. I often take it outside to our deck/patio, where we have an elec outlet so battery is not...

Quote: Originally Posted by alZmtbr ...... Somewhen along the line, the whole method of playing Internet Radio changed, requiring a login account at the above web-site....... You only need a MySB.com account to play Apps and Music Services. Everything within SBS 7.x Internet Radio will play fine with no MySB.com account.

Still same message with no music sources switched on. The only way I have managed to get this working is by using iPeng on the iPhone to control the SBR and move the music source to MSB.com, i cant get the Napster stuff to work if I have my SBS as the music source. Is this correct? Either way from the squeezebox remote I cannot switch my music source to MSB.com or use Napster content. Thanks for your help so far, any other bright ideas?

I have DSL in use for my computer that plays internet radio just fine. It's on the slower end of DSL. I'm not sure this is considered "Broadband" as suggested by SB. I'm wondering if they recommend fast,faster,fastest for the automatic updating of software I've read about. Just how fast does your internet connection have to be for this little black box to work???? Thanks, Rog

To not be misunderstood boom too can function without a local server and decode most radio there is , but radio can do more. You are then conected to a web service called mysqueezebox.com this handles server duties when you do not have a lokal server. You do not need a local server, however from time to time it is convenient to log with a web browser to mysqueezebox.com and do some maintenance and stuff. You only need an active Internet...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mnyb This only means that boom will depend on the server for future upgrades. And some things canot be acomplished without the server on. For example the new products is said to have native AAC decoding. This means that they can be connected to smysqueezebox.com without any computer running and decode such radio channels. With a boom you must have have your local server running and it transcodes such stream for the...

After going away and thinking about this... the reason your player can't be seen locally is 'cause it's connected to the Internet, not your local PC, so you need to switch it back, either by logging into 'MySqueezeBox.com' and disconnecting it there, or at the squeezebox player itself, using the remote - you'll have to scroll thru to find "Connect to <local PC name>". As to you...

aubuti, Thanks. Got it now. My "understander" must be out of tune today Having read thousands of posts over the years I know how often "wireless/connection problems" come up. That's why I always recommend wired if it is doable. My oldest son remodeled part of his house recently. Put in two Squeezeboxes. We could have done it wirelessly BUT it was possible to put in network jacks so we did.......and by...

Already using LastFM on the SB3 so I will give that a try as well