I am currently contemplating which route to take for my music streaming.
I was originally going to go for a Tranquil T7 bit have hit problems with supplier, so am nor investigating the PC route again.
I understand the biggest disadvantage with the PC solution is the power consumption if you leave it on all the time. What happens to this power consumption if it is in sleep mode. I wanted to understand how the setup would work with a PC. I expect to do the following:
Living room this is where the Squeezebox duet will sit which will be connected to amp and squeezebox will be connected wirelessly to router.
My laptop will be sitting all on its own upstairs somewhere. It will be connected to the broadband network wirelessly.
So two questios:
- if I leave the laptop on 24/7, it will go to sleep mode when not in use. In that case, if I am downstairs and select a song to play via the Duet, will the pc automatically Wake up or do I need to go upstairs and awaken it?
- Am I right that in the above set up I dont need to connect anything via Ethernet (I have wireless broadband in the house) - so the location of my router is irrelevant (assuming the wireless signal passes to all components)??
Thanks
I was originally going to go for a Tranquil T7 bit have hit problems with supplier, so am nor investigating the PC route again.
I understand the biggest disadvantage with the PC solution is the power consumption if you leave it on all the time. What happens to this power consumption if it is in sleep mode. I wanted to understand how the setup would work with a PC. I expect to do the following:
Living room this is where the Squeezebox duet will sit which will be connected to amp and squeezebox will be connected wirelessly to router.
My laptop will be sitting all on its own upstairs somewhere. It will be connected to the broadband network wirelessly.
So two questios:
- if I leave the laptop on 24/7, it will go to sleep mode when not in use. In that case, if I am downstairs and select a song to play via the Duet, will the pc automatically Wake up or do I need to go upstairs and awaken it?
- Am I right that in the above set up I dont need to connect anything via Ethernet (I have wireless broadband in the house) - so the location of my router is irrelevant (assuming the wireless signal passes to all components)??
Thanks