The Achilles heel in my otherwise perfect AV setup

Chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:46:52 +0000

Since my AV rack is nowhere near my router, I run a WDS network that uses two Airport Extremes — one 100Mbps, one 1Gbps. Since bandwidth isn't as much of an issue between networked devices in the rack, it gets the 100Mbps. By and large, it works brilliantly — I've got a Squeezebox 3, Tivo S3, Xbox 360, and Slingbox connected to the Extreme and everything's solid. Lately, though, I've been getting intermittent dropouts on the WDS where both routers go to blinky yellow. Sometimes it fixes itself after a few minutes, sometimes I've got to power cycle the remote (the rack router). Either way, though, the Slingbox loses network connectivity without fail and never regains it — I've got to reset it to get it back on track. Since this WDS drama happens at least once or twice a day, it renders the Slingbox useless if I'm out of the house for any length of time, which is the only scenario where I want to use it anyway. Sling: can you please release a firmware that'll make the box at least try to restore connectivity on its own accord?

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The Achilles heel in my otherwise perfect AV setup