| The Squeezebox by Slim Devices |
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As we opened the box, we were happy to find the Squeezebox suspended within a foam cradle for protection from shock or impact from any of the boxes sides. Pulling out the contents of the box, we have the Squeezebox unit in black, the newly styled black remote, two AA batteries for the remote (nice touch), the AC power cable for the Squeezebox, the RCA audio cables with gold contacts (very nice touch); and the very well written as well as very well illustrated, Owner's Guide.
After reading through the manual to familiarize ourselves with the Squeezebox's installation and writing down the mac address for the unit for our wireless router address filter settings, we first decided to set the unit up right in the office near to the server it would be getting the music folders from and near to the wireless router for the setup. If we could get it to work here, then we would proceed to place the Squeezebox quite a distance away in the family room near the stereo systems with hope that the range would not be a hindering factor in listening to streaming music. We were unsure of the range and complexity of what was to follow due to all of the protective features on our wireless router and had no idea if the Squeezebox had the features, as current laptops do, to set all of the wireless features required. Again, our wireless router/network uses WPA-TPIK 128 bit encryption without broadcasting the wireless routers SSID as well as also filtering the mac address' of all devices allowed to connect to the wireless router, and in the past it has sometimes been troublesome to get certain review laptops to access the network without downloading software updates for their wireless ethernet cards and or going out of our way to set everything to work (whatever happened to plug and play?). With this in mind and just in case our initial attempts failed, we were very happy to find that the wireless unit also comes with an ethernet jack port for connecting directly to the network or pc to get the music from. This was a welcome sight as a backup for us should we need it.
Observing the backside of the unit, you can see how glossy, elegant and beautiful that the Squeezebox is. The designers at Slim Devices have really created a beautifully encased device, with many peripheral connections on the backside as well as the padded bar which allows the unit to sit at a very slight angle on any flat surface.
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