Cannot Connect unless Slimserver is Online

[PoW]

I need to observe this a bit more however it seems by sb2 cannot connect to squeezenetwork unless my slimserver is online. Once connected I can power down the slimserver and the sb2 stays connected to squeezenetwork. Kind of odd however, anybody notice anything similar?

slimserver v6.1.1

TIA

[dean]

That's very strange. Can you describe a little more what you see on
the screen?

On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:23 AM, PoW wrote:

>
> I need to observe this a bit more however it seems by sb2 cannot
> connect
> to squeezenetwork unless my slimserver is online. Once connected I
> can
> power down the slimserver and the sb2 stays connected to
> squeezenetwork. Kind of odd however, anybody notice anything similar?
>
> slimserver v6.1.1
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
> PoW
>

[tygar]

When the SB2 says "Connecting to SlimServer" try using the up or down arrows to change the display to "Connect to SqueezeNetwork" and proceed from there.

[dean]

Ah, when it says "Connecting to SlimServer..." up and down shouldn't
do anything except bump.

Press LEFT to go back to the menu, DOWN to choose "Connect to
SqueezeNetwork" and you are on...


On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:59 AM, tygar wrote:

>
> When the SB2 says "Connecting to SlimServer" try using the up or down
> arrows to change the display to "Connect to SqueezeNetwork" and
> proceed
> from there.
>
>
> --
> tygar
>

[sbjaerum]

Ah, when it says "Connecting to SlimServer..." up and down shouldn't
do anything except bump.

Press LEFT to go back to the menu, DOWN to choose "Connect to
SqueezeNetwork" and you are on...

Is it possible to connect Softsqueeze to SqueezeNetwork without starting SlimServer?

Steinar

[Dan Sully]

* sbjaerum shaped the electrons to say...

>Is it possible to connect Softsqueeze to SqueezeNetwork without
>starting SlimServer?

Sure! Depending on what OS you are on, but the jist is something like:

(OSX

open HTML/EN/html/softsqueeze/SoftSqueeze.jar

Which will launch java and SoftSqueeze. Use the config to point to
service.us.squeezenetwork.com as the server.

-D
--
They're techno trousers, ex-NASA, fantastic for walkies!

[sbjaerum]

* sbjaerum shaped the electrons to say...

>Is it possible to connect Softsqueeze to SqueezeNetwork without
>starting SlimServer?

Sure! Depending on what OS you are on, but the jist is something like:

(OSX

open HTML/EN/html/softsqueeze/SoftSqueeze.jar

Which will launch java and SoftSqueeze. Use the config to point to
service.us.squeezenetwork.com as the server.

-D

Thanks, setting the squeezenetwork server in config did the trick.

Steinar

[PoW]

No dice, I have the squeezebox setup behind a firewall, do I need to open some ports for it to work properly? I scroll down to 'Connect to SqueezeNetwork' and it sits there saying 'Connecting to SqueezeNetwork...'

Wait a second, while I'm typing this it connects perfectly, first time I have seen that. Heres something that might be affecting it, I usually have a number of torrents running, they eat up a good portion of my bandwidth especially the upstream bandwidth. However I just stopped all torrents a moment ago.

It seems the sb2 has a bit of trouble connecting to the SqueezeNetwork when there is lots of network traffic. Maybe its just me...

[dean]

On Jul 29, 2005, at 12:02 AM, PoW wrote:
> It seems the sb2 has a bit of trouble connecting to the SqueezeNetwork
> when there is lots of network traffic. Maybe its just me...
Torrents (or other applications that use a substantial amount of
upstream bandwidth) can be an issue for connecting to SqueezeNetwork,
since many broadband connections have far lower upstream bandwidth
available.

I found that my SqueezeNetwork access was intermittent when had a
torrent running with more than a couple active peers.

[Robin Bowes]

dean blackketter wrote:
>
> On Jul 29, 2005, at 12:02 AM, PoW wrote:
>
>> It seems the sb2 has a bit of trouble connecting to the SqueezeNetwork
>> when there is lots of network traffic. Maybe its just me...
>
> Torrents (or other applications that use a substantial amount of
> upstream bandwidth) can be an issue for connecting to SqueezeNetwork,
> since many broadband connections have far lower upstream bandwidth
> available.
>
> I found that my SqueezeNetwork access was intermittent when had a
> torrent running with more than a couple active peers.

*Any* TCP applications are impacted by saturated bandwidth. TCP is a
two-way protocol, so even if you are just downloading, the client needs
to send control packets back to the server which it can't do if the link
is saturated.

R.