why is radio less reliable on msb.com?

[jsclarke]

Again this week, each of my 3 squeezebox radios have gotten flakey with mysqueezebox.com. Two are hard wired, one wireless. All three in diagnostics look fine- ping to msb is OK- but I can't access favorites or play a stream. This happened Friday around 3PM PDT and lasted all afternoon. I checked my boom's- both played fine. The only way to get my radios back was to switch to squeezebox server- and I hate to leave a 100 watt PC running.

Anyone else having recent problems, or can venture a guess as to why just the radio's have so much trouble with msb.com?

[amcluesent]

>I hate to leave a 100 watt PC running<

Have you looked at enabling Wake on LAN (WOL) functionality in the BIOS?

[Robm1955]

Am I missing something here? I thought I needed my pc on to access internet radio. I'm also having problems with stations being 'flakey'. I can't listen to LBC without the broadcast re-buffering every couple of seconds. Can't be my router, as it has always been ok in the past.

[Labarum]

You are missing something, Rob.

Squeezeboxes can work to a local server you have installed on a computer on your local network, or to Logitech's server on the internet at

http://www.mysqueezebox.com/index/Home

There is a Squeezebox menu item to switch between them.

One you register with Mysqueezebox.com you can save favourites. Of course you cannot play music ripped to you local server.

I have Boom in my conservatory which I almost always use for BBC Radio 4 - I leave the boom working via Mysqueezebox.com Why don't I just use an FM Radio? Because I am in Cyprus and Internet Radio is the easiest way to get UK domestic radio.

[Robm1955]

Thanks Brian. That's cleared it up a bit for me. I'll start a new thread about the broadcast dropping. Thanks again.

[jsclarke]

>I hate to leave a 100 watt PC running<

Have you looked at enabling Wake on LAN (WOL) functionality in the BIOS?

Thanks that's a good idea- I'll try that- then if msb.com started acting up on the radios- I'd select music library on the radio- and hopefully it'd wait until the PC woke up and squeezebox server responded.

I still wish the radios worked as reliably as booms, etc... John