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Greetings Krorghar and welcome to the forum!
You will know me as Matt49 on What hifi.
Whilst ethernet might theoretically be superior to USB, I think the SQ differences between ethernet and USB are tiny, if indeed they exist at all.
And I don't think expensive USB cables make any difference. But, hey! maybe that's just me. The important thing is to get up and running and enjoy the sound.
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A USB cable is not supposed to be longer than some 2m.
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A 5m USB cable may cause problems. However, a 5-7m ethernet cable will be absolutely fine.
You could simply add a cheap switch to your ethernet. If you're worried about SQ issues caused by the switch, take the ethernet cable to the Devialet straight from your router and use the switch for non-audio applications (PCs, printers etc).
Good luck, and keep us posted!
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I use Air to connect my iMac to my Devialet wirelessly. I used to get dropouts when Air was new and had a frustrating time getting rid of them but the latest version of Air seems to work without dropouts on my system now, as long as the maintenance scripts run to keep the system clean.
Air is available for PC if you look on the Devialet website, this presumably works OK too, no cables to worry about...
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Have you downloaded the Devialet AIR app to your PC?
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04-Aug-2014, 21:24
(This post was last modified: 04-Aug-2014, 22:15 by Krorghar.)
Heres what I have done:
Used the Web configurator to force the Devialet with the 192.168.1.3 IP that is free on my router (1 and 2 are used)
test pinged this IP using the CMD interface, and the device is responding.
Downloaded and Installed Devialet Air 2.1.2
And that's all. When I launch devialet Air, it just puts a gray icon in the taskbar without doing anything further, when I click on that icon it show no playing options, it just say "disabled" and won't let me enable it.