Re: Wireless routers
I'm not going to buy this, especially with the way that the iPad handles network connections.
I have more than one WiFi network that I connect my iPad to, depending on what I want to do with it. Thus, there is more than one network profile that it uses. In each network profile you can specify how the iPad receives its IP address when connecting to that network.
For example, when the iPad connects to my home network that is connected to the internet, it receives its IP address via DHCP, which also provides the gateway and DNS information. Ergo, my iPad can find its way onto the internet and all works well.
However, later when I want to connect it to a different network that is not connected to the internet (say perhaps my testing and development network at home) I simply select that network on the iPad and it uses the last known settings for that network, including the security information and the IP acquisition information (DHCP, BootP, or Static). Since everything on my test network has a fixed IP address and I set up my iPad to have a fixed IP address on that network (even though there IS also a DHCP server on the network) the iPad connects every time with the same static IP address that I have previously told it to use, without a gateway or DNS configured.
In short, understanding how fixed IP addressing can simplify your life, especially in a performance audio system that will likely not be changing much on a day to day basis, can go a long way to making things work reliably in a standardized method.
