Xtreamer, No More Issues
I’ve noticed over the weekend that since I fitted the add-on cooler to the Xtreamer I have not been having any issues as I had described when I first purchased the little media streamer. This is quite awesome as I did start to wonder if I had just wasted £109 on a new heater.
The only issue I have come across is when I replaced the router with my D-Link Dir-655 as the old router had started to randomly drop the connection to the Internet. The dir-655 was setup as an access point for the Xtreamer on Wireless-N to get the best speed streaming downstairs to the TV. When I came to swap the routers I completely reset the d-link to factory settings. I suspect I didn’t setup the wireless on the same settings as before as now the Xtreamer fails to connect to the Wireless-N network and get an IP address. However the old router which is Wireless-G still has some life in it to act as a access-point for the Xtreamer. The laptops are on the Wireless-N network which keeps the airways clear enough for the Xtreamer to stream HD surprisingly!
One day I’ll end up fixing it as it was connected to the d-link but if it isn’t broken don’t fix it. Right?
I need to get something like that when I’m back over there. Want something that can get me HD.
Hi TL – Glad to hear that things are improved.
I posted yesterday on the official forum about a useful posting made on an australian website: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1232493&r=22427369#r22427369
Read through the posts by Rancidmoth for a good break down of issues seen and improvements made. In particular try a few dfferent channels for a possible easy solution (Note that this will improve your network performance anyway if channels are bleeding across and interfering with each other.
Good luck – I’m still learning to et the most out of this little black box.
‘CaP