B&W A7 airplay connection lost to WiFi

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B&W A7 airplay connection lost to WiFi

after changing the setup of my B&W A7 speaker from beeing connected wirelessly to a LAN connection after a short time (minutes) the speaker loses its connection to the wireless network. I can see that in the setup window (IP-adr in the webbrowser) there is no wireless network selected and I have to point again to the WiFi network and entering the password. Otherwise I can do a power off/on at the speaker.

Previously the A7 was configured with the iPhone to use the wireless network only and that configuration worked well for more than five months now. But using a LAN connection must be working also.

For the wireless network I am using an AEBS (2nd generation) with the latest firmware installed. The AEBS is set to bridge mode (converting Ethernet data from wired to wireless).

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 1, 2014 1:08 PM

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uhu Author

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Jan 2, 2014 10:47 AM in response to uhu

problem solved, it doesn't have anything to do with the AEBS nor with the B&W A7 speaker. It had to do with the switch! Strange but it has; the switch is part of the DSL router provided by the network operator (Swisscom). It's a Motorola Netopia VDSL Modem with custom settings that are not documented.

Thanks to the community forum I found that there are other users having similar issues and there was help around leading me to IGMP snooping setting which may ** used for IP-television but in my case prevent AirPlay from working as expected.

Anyway my network is running fine now again with an AirPlay speaker wired to the local LAN.

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