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Headphoneus Supremus
Wireless networks are the closest thing to malevolent artificial intelligence that I have yet to encounter. Nevertheless, clueless determination prevailed, and my new network is up and running.
It seemed simple, really. A central router, with multiple airport express nodes to feed digital audio streams to different locations around the house/garage. Unfortunately Linksys and Apple do not get along too well in WDS. I could have done the custom firmware trick, but I was tired of losing the bitwrestling match. I switched to a Buffalo router (with external antenna) and had the whole thing running in a couple of hours.
I added a Linksys NSLU2 drive server with one external 300 gig drive (so far). I use Filesync to keep it synchronized with my main computer's music folder (ALAC files).
I can now fire up my laptop, start itunes, point to an AE, and have a digital feed from the network library, without ever turning on the main PC. The wireless path is server through AE to laptop, then back to AE and optical out. FUN! Just to complicate things I have one of the AE feeding toslink to a Yamaha DP-u50 supplying analog to a system, with the Yamaha toslink output going downstairs and through 2 walls to another DP-u50 in my garage. You can daisy-chain the digital signal in these things forever!
Meanwhile my stack of CD players pouts and gathers dust in the storage room. They are no doubt worried about what will be possible 2 years from now.
gerG
It seemed simple, really. A central router, with multiple airport express nodes to feed digital audio streams to different locations around the house/garage. Unfortunately Linksys and Apple do not get along too well in WDS. I could have done the custom firmware trick, but I was tired of losing the bitwrestling match. I switched to a Buffalo router (with external antenna) and had the whole thing running in a couple of hours.
I added a Linksys NSLU2 drive server with one external 300 gig drive (so far). I use Filesync to keep it synchronized with my main computer's music folder (ALAC files).
I can now fire up my laptop, start itunes, point to an AE, and have a digital feed from the network library, without ever turning on the main PC. The wireless path is server through AE to laptop, then back to AE and optical out. FUN! Just to complicate things I have one of the AE feeding toslink to a Yamaha DP-u50 supplying analog to a system, with the Yamaha toslink output going downstairs and through 2 walls to another DP-u50 in my garage. You can daisy-chain the digital signal in these things forever!
Meanwhile my stack of CD players pouts and gathers dust in the storage room. They are no doubt worried about what will be possible 2 years from now.
gerG