At this address...

http://www.directron.com/homefree.html

is a description of a Diamond home phone network card that's on sale for $7.00 (assuming that's not a typo on their web site).

The problem is that their description says 1mbps. But when I look up the HomeFree product at the Diamond site it says 10mbps.

In any case, will this work with the receiver? If so, it's a steal at $7.00.

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Tony Fabris

Yep, thats the older 1mb card that they show there. (That intel home networking class came in real handy, they taught us how to visually identify the 1 and 10 cards )

Hmm. So the question is...

If one buys the 1mbps card for 7 bucks, will it work with the Rio Receiver?

I'd think 1mbps would be plenty to feed the receiver with, assuming the networking standards were compatible.

Anyone?

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Tony Fabris

If the RioReciever is completly HPNA certified, then it should be able to back down to 1mbps for this. If I remember right, 1mbps cards would knock all devices in the house on the HPNA network to 1mbps.

It will work, but not very well - eg, they don't really get 1Mbit. You're lucky to get 320kbit streaming to one unit working with pna1.0 - they fixed a lot of stuff with 2.0 apart from bumping the speed.

Hugo

It will work, but not very well - eg, they don't really get 1Mbit. You're lucky to get 320kbit streaming to one unit working with pna1.0

But if you've got only one unit, and your MP3s are all a lower average bit rate than 320, and you don't intend to use the PNA card for anything but the one receiver, should it be OK? The receiver has really robust buffering, right?

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Tony Fabris

YMMV. We never had any PNA1.0 cards to test with, but we did hear horror stories from the test department.

It'll take longer to boot, obviously. From a linux point of view though, it has no idea what transport everything is running over.

Hugo