f5434964 wrote:

hello!

Its BeoSOUND 5 not BeoCOM 5!

I may be incorrect, but from the content of the posts, I think they're talking about the Beocom 5 telephone.

Catchy name by the way. Is if 'f' for short?

Hi Trip, Your not alone. When I first got the Encore we had the same experience. I thought it might have to do with the fact that we can only get a DSL feed to the shop... nothing better. From the begining we would get network slow down and dropping of internet radio everytime we would get heavy on the computers and have it on. Thankfully are cisco router came a few days later and we were able to get it up on it's own subnet. I think for the one off "guy/gal" who may buys this as their main audio piece, uses their PC/Mac as the server, use it normally (1-3 times a week), and not put heavy taxing with mulitple encore on their network, to exist with out a subnet. Time will tell though. Certain routers most likely have an effect as well. If you have a NAS though I can't think of a good reason know why you wouldn't want to use a subnet though. 

f5434964 wrote:

hello!

Its BeoSOUND 5 not BeoCOM 5!

We sidetracked - it happens in forums - which is why I clearly said maybe this needs a separate discussion!

Reason for being sidetracked, is that we started talking about s/w issues.

As merely an interested bystander... when you are talking about 'subnets' do you mean simply two separate WiFi networks, or subnets in the proper TCP/IP sense? If just the former, I'd recommend picking another term for it, as they are completely different things, which might create confusion down the road...

Disclosure - I am in the networking business and i do sell Cisco.

But just to add what others have said, you definitely do not need a Cisco access point/router for this - anyone would work. But I would recommend a dual radio 11n access point, and that you put your Encore on the 5GHz radio, and let your PC's, IPADs, phones, etc connect on the 2.4GHz. Or you can have separate networks. At home I have 9 wifi devices and I was using an Apple AP to stream music to my BS9000 - either the music would drop ro my internet access was barely there. What i did is I took a Cisco AP and put everything on it, and made sure the two radios were on. The result is that my internet access went up 5X. I am using a business class AP however that costs about $500-$600, not a $100 Linksys. But I have $20K of wifi enabled equipment at home, and generate enough wifi traffic equivalent to a small office or retail store.

And don't get me wrong - not here trying to sell Cisco. But there are many consumers, at least here in the US, deploying business class wifi infrastructure in their homes. If you want more info just PM me and I will give you some options.

Hi Tournedos, we did indeed have two seperate routers, but we use the cysco purely to run the encore and stream from our beomaster, we could consolidate if needed but we have two because we leave one open for the police officers who park in front of our shop at night to steal wifi and watch netflix etc. Lets just say we have 0 thefts at our shop 😁

A professional installer told me, that, from his point of view, there are some very good reasons to use
a separate router and a separate TCP/IP subnet when installing a (WiFi) network for B&O.

- no additional B&O related data traffic in the existing network of the customer
- no data traffic caused by other activities of the customer in the B&O network 
- no need to know any password of the customer
- he will not "touch" any security settings of the existing infrastructure of the customer
- he will only be liable for the B&O Network

Most of these considerations won't apply to a private DIY-user , beeing the administrator of his own
network and hence beeing fully responsible for his own installation/security/...

Subnet for Dummies:

bsantini wrote:

Subnet for Dummies:

link

Barry

Good stuff.  Thanks.

Kokomo wrote:

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?

OT: Well, hidding the SSID is not protecting a wifi ap and neither is mac filtering. It's easy to scan and find wifi networks where SSID broadcast has been disabled and MAC addresses can easily be spoofed. So ensuring proper encryption (WPA2-PSK) with long encryption key (pre shared key) is the way to go and as well with most wifi routers you're able to segment the network in a easy way.