H E L P !! Network issues with Teac NT 505?

I’ve got an NT505 that I previously ran cabled to router but now run cabled to WiFi extender far from router.

I use cat 7 always. When I switched from cat 6 to 7 I noticed many fewer drops (basically none thereafter ).

Whenever we have problems now it is almost always that my WiFi extender isn’t playing well with my router - eg, couple times had to get the WiFi extender recognized by router control app. But the Teac just works

So you are doing what I do: using a wifi extender that connects wirelessly to your router, and then running an ethernet cable from the extender to the Teac. I use Netgear routers and extenders, but they probably work similarly.

Usually, these wifi extenders create a new wifi network based off the original wifi network created by the router. So if the original wifi network name from the router is, let’s say, MainNetwork. Then the extended network created by the extender may be something like MainNetwork_ext, or MainNetwork2 or something like that (just to differentiate), but it will typically use the same wifi password as the original. You should try to connect your phone or tablet or other device to the extended network to be sure that the extender is producing a usable network, and even better connect a laptop to the ethernet cable out of the extender just to test that out. Then just be sure that whatever your are controlling the Teac with (phone or tablet) is using the extender wifi network, not the original (so in my hypothetical, make sure the phone or table is connected to wifi network MainNetwork_ext or MainNetwork2 or whatever it is called).

When the Teac is making connection to the network, the display flashes while it is connecting, but when it connects the display stops flashing.

Good luck.

If the extender is NOT producing a solid wifi extended network, you may need to re-pair it with the router, and possibly also establish or validate it with the router software (usually by logging in to a web page associated with your router). It can be a little confusing (the part I’m describing here), but all of this is related to your router/extender interface, and nothing to do with the Teac (the stuff I’m talking about in this post because that is what tripped me up any time I had issues with mine)

"So, if I am thinking right, the Teac is on the .ext network by default of the ethernet cable plugged into the extender." Correct.

"Connecting the tablet also to the .ext network will then put it on the "same" network." Yes, and that is necessary for it to work.

"So it controls the Teac through the extender?" It controls the Teac wirelessley via the extended network, yes, by sending control directions, if you will.

"Meanwhile, the the music comes wirelessly, to the extender and on to the Teac? Is that the path?" Well, first of all, the music does not come wirelessly from the tablet. The tablet only provides control functions, it doesn’t play into providing the music (unless you were using Bluetooth to send content (e.g., a YouTube video) from the tablet to the Teac but that is a separate discussion not relevant here as I understand it). So the music comes either from a streaming service (Tidal/Qobuz/Spotify etc) to your router and then wirelessly to your extender and then though the cable to the Teac, or from your stored music collection located on a hard drive somewhere in your house and via your network(s) in some fashion (combination of wired and wireless likely, eventually getting to your extender and through the ethernet cable to the Teac), but not through the tablet (tablet just for controlling functions).

That is my understanding anyway - if I’m wrong about any of that someone will correct hopefully

Could be the broken I/O board issue (if i recall - don’t quote me) discussed in the other NT505 thread. I actually thought yesterday I might be dealing with same thing.

Using wifi extender in second system far away from router, and then cat 7 from extender to NT505. Had worked mostly flawlessly for couple years but lately wasn’t connecting as well.

Used as opportunity to finally upgrade firmware (done via micro USB cable from PC directly - network not needed) to go from firmware version 1.21 to 1.30, current as of November 2021.

Then took the unit downstairs and directly connected to the router via same cat 7, and it worked, so I knew it must be my wifi extender.

Anyway, I had another extender, paired/linked that to the router, and now working again upstairs. But it feels a bit tenuous....... Always takes a bit to lock on and I’m never quite sure - have taken to leaving it on and hopefully connected all the time, see how it goes.

BTW I use the Lumin network app, not the Teac network app - as for me it is preferable. But all that said, I’ve gotten 3 years of great use out of the dac and still like it very much