04-Apr-2022, 15:52
(04-Apr-2022, 14:55)ogs Wrote: The only real remedy to this was to skip wifi and use point-to-point ethernet wiring instead.
I devised my own workaround which might be helpful for some. It requires a reasonably configurable access point and a little bit of network knowledge but unfortunately those seem to be prerequisites for getting Devialet products working wirelessly in many cases anyway!
I have two access points in my apartment, one in the same room as the Phantoms (2m from L, 5m from R with clear line-of-sight) and one that is three rooms and three 12" thick load-bearing walls away (turn of the (last) century apartment block!) As @ogs describes, on one occasion when the Phantoms started misbehaving I found one of the speakers had connected to the distant AP with considerably lower signal strength much more congestion and a different wired network path back to the Roon core. Obviously I didn't know if this was the cause of the issue but it probably wasn't helping.
So I defined a (hidden) virtual wireless network just for the Phantoms. It only broadcasts on the closest AP and only on the 5GHz band which is much less congested in my building. That way I force them to connect to the same AP.
Even with less configurable network solutions it should be possible to implement this with Guest Network functionality (which most APs, even low end consumer ones, support).
