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In Reply to: It does depend on what you are doing. posted by Gordon Rankin on January 22, 2007 at 08:50:49:

Gordon, Have you looked into the new (soon to be released) Airport Extreme with its networked hard drive capability? What I'm wondering is if you can have a hard drive with all of the music on it connected to the AE and use iTunes on a networked computer with one of your USB DACs for playback. And if you can have multiple of these setups around the house. This would allow you to store your hard drive away from the music system, and for it to be shared in more than one audio system.
Based on experience I'm not terribly confident in wireless connectivity for music listening (mainly, drop outs), but the idea of the wirelessly networked drive shared across more than one computer/audio system is clearly useful for media. I've studied some of the available NAS products, but most seemed too technical. No doubt Apple will make it consumer friendly.

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My IBook is halfway in the room - Sordidman 10:53:08 01/23/07 (2)
In between the listening room and the dining room. Even the little IBook is noisy. I have it connected via a mini-hub and CAT5 to our MAC ITunes Server in our basement. The IBook is certainly a lot quieter than our G5 server.
I have never found a case where running wireless works for music playback.
Thanks for you post. I was curious about the new Airport Extreme and wondered if one could run wirelessly with it, and how noisy it is...
Cheers,

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- Streaming right now... no noise at all - Gordon Rankin 12:29:39 01/24/07 (0)
  Sordidman,
  I have a G4 iBook, several MacBooks and a G5 dual 2GHZ. The G5 is a little noisey but the G4 never has it's fan on and the MacBooks are only noisey when I run Windows in parallels or book camp.
  As for wireless... I have never had a problem. I have an AE-G model with a DrBott antena and I am like 80 feet away from the basement server.
  Never had a drop out ounce.
  Thanks
  Gordon
  J. Gordon Rankin
- wireless works great, Macbooks are quiet - hermanesque 18:46:05 01/23/07 (0)
  The newer Macbooks are completely silent (I think the g3 and 4 are too) unless they are accessing a disc, which they don't have to do when used wirelessly.
  Sorry to hear you have had trouble with wireless but I use it with great success. I can stream from iTunes to any or all 4 Airport Expresses in my house with no problems.
Re: Gordon, the new Apple Extreme and networked drives... - Gordon Rankin 08:29:03 01/23/07 (0)
Andrew,
If you mean use the new AE-N as a hard drive server then yea... I am on the list...
Presently I have a LaCie NAS server and do that it works fine connected to the back bone and then stream over my AE-G system. But the server itself sucks and is very noisey.
Anyway G is fine for audio as you are only really requiring it to transfer at 2MBS. The computers have plenty of buffer space and so this is not a problem.
I have not see how the setup for the drive will be but I am looking forward to getting one.
Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin

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