Meridian MC-200 Ordered

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by Crion

Congrats Jim on your MC200!

Really try to keep everything Sooloos hardwired when you can. I connect everything Sooloos to their own little 8 port Gbit switch and from that a TP cable to my main house wireless router.

Wireless can be unpredictable sometimes when you least expect it apart from slower speed and latency resulting from antenna range issues and neighbouring wireless nets. I also reserve each device IP adress in the router. It's easy once you've done it once and it saves possible headaches further on.

Keep us posted on your progress.

There is virtually no way that I will be able to hardwire my MC 200 to my network. It will be Airport or nothing because I am not tearing out that much drywall.

[Crion]

Ok, I guess you are looking at something like the Linksys E6500 AC router and on the client side Linksys WUMC710 media connector.

But you might have to sift through topics like these to educate yourself abit about the nature of the technology:
WUMC710 connects with only 40mhz in AC mode with L... - Cisco Home Community

802.11ac is not a final standard much like 802.11n was in the beginning. But atleast some users have reported pretty descent results with it. For sooloos you want a consistent working network with no dropouts. Wired network gives you that but sometimes you have no choice. I think AC have potential but haven't ventured there myself and it is evolving rapidly.

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by JFR0317

Congrats on the MC-200, Jim! I think you will really enjoy it. If you aren't already aware, you can import the FLAC files from your MS300 to your MC-200. I did this with my MS750 and C15/Twinstore.

I am listening to Rhapsody as I type this using an Airport Express to connect my MS200 in my office to my network, and it is (as always) working well. Of course, the Airport Express is only about ten feet away from the Time Machine wireless router and in the same room. YMMV. Good luck!

John
How did you import from the 750? I have tried a couple of things and no luck so far. I don't know what to point to when using control Mac. I tried mounting it using the SMB command on a old Air since Mountain Lion doesn't support SMB command.

[JFR0317]

Originally Posted by Still-One

John
How did you import from the 750? I have tried a couple of things and no luck so far. I don't know what to point to when using control Mac. I tried mounting it using the SMB command on a old Air since Mountain Lion doesn't support SMB command.

I had previously backed up my MS750 on a network accessible external hard drive, so I used Control Mac to access that drive.

I'll try to refresh my memory on how I did the MS750 backup and get back with you.

[JFR0317]

Jim, as I can best recall, when I made my original backup of my MS750, I mounted my network-connected MS750 using SMB and then just navigated to the "Content" folder and dragged the music files to a folder on my network-accessible hard drive. Of course, this was several years ago, and I was then running an older version of Mac OS.

When I got my Sooloos, I used the "Import" function in Control Mac to navigate to the MS750 backup folder, and I imported from there.

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by JFR0317

Jim, as I can best recall, when I made my original backup of my MS750, I mounted my network-connected MS750 using SMB and then just navigated to the "Content" folder and dragged the music files to a folder on my network-accessible hard drive. Of course, this was several years ago, and I was then running an older version of Mac OS.

When I got my Sooloos, I used the "Import" function in Control Mac to navigate to the MS750 backup folder, and I imported from there.

I tried that last night and it was really slow and never imported one disc before both me and the computer went to sleep.

I will try it again tomorrow with a slightly different set-up.

[Crion]

Jim, for large imports, please have everything including your ControlPC, network shares and MC200 hardwired to the same switch/router. Otherwise it will literally take forever..

After all large imports are done you can experiment with wireless/ac networking.

When I do importing/backups I see around 250-350mbit continously on the network at the time of an album import.

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by Crion

Jim, for large imports, please have everything including your ControlPC, network shares and MC200 hardwired to the same switch/router. Otherwise it will literally take forever..

After all large imports are done you can experiment with wireless/ac networking.

When I do importing/backups I see around 250-350mbit continously on the network at the time of an album import.

I am having no problems importing two CD's simultaneously using two computers. The MC200 is hear wired to the network while the two laptops are sending the data wirelessly back to the network.

I will try connecting my old MacBook Adair to the network with a cable as that is the only machine with Snow Leopard on it. The MS 300 doesn't work with Mountain Lions SMB command.

[Still-One]

I think I have figured out how to pull some of the music from the MS 300 to the Meridian/Sooloos. I had to drill down further after connecting to the 300 via the network. I ampulling the first disc over now.

[JFR0317]

Originally Posted by Still-One

I think I have figured out how to pull some of the music from the MS 300 to the Meridian/Sooloos. I had to drill down further after connecting to the 300 via the network. I ampulling the first disc over now.

Great news, Jim!