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Hi,
I'm running a Playmaker with no problems connected to my HP netbook with iTunes. However, my iPhone connection is very temperamental. Although it recognised the Playmaker it will often dump the connection as soon as I press play. At other times when it does connect it will hesitate mid-song, and eventually fail or cause the Playmaker to go into error mode. Any ideas why this would be? I'd think it is an iPhone problem as the Playmaker runs perfectly when fed by the netbook.
Cheers,
Patrick
Most 'Playmaker problems' are router/AirPlay problems.
Greetings Millemissen
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
Grab a Cisco router like the E3000 and above and you should be fine. Those routers are also supported by B&O so if you continue to have problems then you are fully compliant with what B&O is pushing customers to have and can most likely get further assistance.
Try focusing your devices to a SINGLE wireless band on the router. Obviously you will have to focus down to the lowest common denominator. In this case that would be, unfortunately, the Playmaker's "B" or "G" radio. In other words, if you can turn off "N" wireless in this scenario, it's possible that it will solve your problem. On my network I had many problems with Airplay dropouts CONSTANTLY and turned off everything except wireless N, because I don't have any B or G devices anymore. Voila, Airplay dropouts 99 percent solved. When my Playmaker shows up, I'll of course have to do the reverse.
If you'd rather not hobble the network that way, then you are just going to have to experiment with different routers as explained above, until you find a combination that works better.
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