There is no need for a Cisco router.

I started with a Netgear router. Everything worked fine with this router! (one lan with mac, pc, bs5, bs5e, nas)

I decided though to split the lan; a B&o (music: NAS, BS5, BS5e) part and for evething else. for this reason I have bought a second router. This router is placed as a subsystem and completely dedicated to music / B&o. This way the traffic for B&o is garanteed.

The second router is a Cisco Linksys 4200. The reasos for this router is the abbilty of this router to be used behind another router.

For example my Netgear router is not capable to function this way.

Stan wrote:

I live in a neighborhood with large yards so I can see only 2 neighbor's wireless networks (with only a bar at most). 

 

You can see your neighbours' wireless networks?

Don't they have their networks protected? 

Kokomo;

Stan meant that he can see the WIFI networks available in his area on his PC. I can see this also up in the Alps from our home, but it also reveals if they are encrypted-secured, or not. On average only 2/3 are are usually secured WPA-2.

Appreciate your comments Trip. It does suggest a question of bandwidth usage, and servers. Fortunately our Internet service is quite good: Never a problem before with N.RADIO ( usually SwissPop, Radio Tirol, or ORF Wien ), downloading, and surfing, even all at once.

Yes, "seeing" is not the same as being able to use.  "Seeing" just means that my network card can receive the network name (SSID) that their network is broadcasting.  Even if they were not secure (they are), their signal strength is too low to use anyway.

Stan

I dont know too much about the BS5e, but is it not just a micro PC with Win XPe and built in Wifi reciever?

If so, would the simple solution be the same as the BS5/BM5 arragment;

Maintenance mode/start/settings/Network Connections/Wireless Network Connections/select network/enter code/apply.......

 

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Have put Encore back on display, enjoying the sound and mots. Finding a specific track is still a chore.

We do have a large selection of tracks, I must admit, customer came in and during the demo started to search for 'Il Divo' under Artists. After spinning the wheel for what seemed like an eternity , the client said ' my hand hurts!'

Good job he wasn't a 'ZZ Top' fan, might have had to take him to A&E :)

BS5 & encore are great, but please please please make finding our customers music easier. (customers words not ours)

SWISS_2 wrote:

Appreciate your comments Trip. It does suggest a question of bandwidth usage, and servers. Fortunately our Internet service is quite good: Never a problem before with N.RADIO ( usually SwissPop, Radio Tirol, or ORF Wien ), downloading, and surfing, even all at once.

This was a little peculiar to me, too. So peculiar, in fact, that it took me almost a week to put 2 and 2 together that the Encore was slowing the network. Especially since I'm not streaming from it all the time. The streaming from the NAS seems to affect browsing speed (and even printing speed!) while the N.RADIO function doesn't. 

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed this or if it's unique to my showroom. Not all customers who I've installed it for have a subnet and no one's given me any feedback yet. 

The Beocom 5 is a classic. I used it for a good 3-4 months and every time I put the phone on to speaker, it hung up on the other person. Basic basic phone functionality (phone + speaker != hanging up on caller)! Luckily it's all sorted now and I love the phone - recommended to all - but it shouldn't have happened in the first place. Before owning the Beocom 5's in the office, we used £80 BT phones without a single software issue (and, they had speakers and answerphones). Quality wasn't as good, sure, but they were flawless in operation.

 

there are still Sw problems with the beocom 5.

Sometimes the phone lost connection with the base....it's a well known problem,every Sw update they try to solved this problem.

With no luck.

koning wrote:

there are still Sw problems with the beocom 5.

Sometimes the phone lost connection with the base....it's a well known problem,every Sw update they try to solved this problem. With no luck.

Then I have this problem too. At least once this week, when I was walking around on the Beocom 5, it hung up on the caller. Luckily the caller re-dialed and I was able to blame the quality of their line, but I was quietly wondering if the Beocom 5 had lost the connection to the base. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen.

A question though - and I guess this should in in a different thread - do you sometimes hear 1 second phone cut-offs when you're on your Beocom 5, as if it's about to lose the connection to the base, but finds it again? Sounds like it is about to cut-off, but doesn't. I get this from time to time and miss a couple of words spoken by the other person.

The only other thing I sometimes find with my Beocom 5 is that the speakerphone spits and crackles when it's ringing. It's not a dealbreaker or causes any issues, but slightly embarassing after spending so much money on the phone(s).

I also still have that B&O phone problem where the other handset (on the same line) carries on ringing for a few seconds after you've answered one of the phones. This is definitely a B&O issue as I used to use two BT phones (on the same line) before the Beocom 5's and they never did this. Both rang at the same time, but as soon as you answered one BT handset the other stopped ringing immediately!

Other than those issues, I'm happy with the Beocom 5s :)

Also, one other point: a lot of my contacts now use Skype. Often the quality of their line is too poor and they have to redial and, occassionally, ditch Skype and redial using their landline. With this in mind, there are few perfect solutions for making traditional calls, IMHO. 

hello!

Its BeoSOUND 5 not BeoCOM 5!