The Wifi router
The Wifi router is a box with several ethernet (RJ45) connectors and a Wifi access. It is the heart of
the network. It makes a communication link between several equipments: computers, Ipad, NAS
(network disks), the Totaldac d1-server and possibly a connection to the Internet.
Most people have already a router at home, often our internet box (DSL, cable or anything else) have
already several available ethernet (RJ45) connectors and a Wifi access.
It is usually possible to use this internet box as a router for the hifi system.
It is also possible to use a second, independent ethernet/Wifi router, making a second Wifi network
in the house. The possible reasons for using a second router are:
1) The hifi system is not is the same room as the Internet box and no ethernet cable is arriving
in the Hifi room.
2) An independent network will be small and fully under control, this can make the system
sound better than when you have several computers, printers, a DSL link, TVs with a building
antenna connected to the network.
3) An independant network can be moved anywhere : another room, a friend's house for a test,
a Hifi shop, a Hifi show, you can move it anywhere without new network configuration
required.
4) Having a local network disconnected to the public phone line you have less risks during a
thunder lightning.
5) The internet provider box can have limitations hard to understand and hard to modify by the
user.
6) The full bandwidth is dedicated to the audio streams.
When using your current Internet box as an ethernet/Wifi router for the hifi system you just need to
enter the Wifi password in the Ipad to connect the Ipad to this network.
You can also buy a second ethernet/Wifi router, from your local shop or from Totaldac.
When you switch OFF the music router, the Ipad connects automatically to another known Wifi
network, and when you switch ON the music router again the Ipad doesn't go back automatically to
the music Wifi network. You have to manually connect to the music Wifi network (TOTALDAC).
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