Bugzilla – Bug 1819
SqueezeNetwork connection timeout is too short
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:12:26 UTC
My ADSL router is set to disconnect from the internet when it's not in use. Therefore, when I connect to SqueezeNetwork, my connection is often not up. When I attempt the connection, this causes my router to connect to the internet, but this takes around 5-10 seconds. During this time, the SB2 reports that it can't connect and I have to tell it to try again, at which point it succeeds. I think the timeout should be increased to avoid this - it can't be that unusual a situation, and it's clumsy when it occurs. (see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=44364 for a possible discussion)
Reassigning to Dean - he recently changed the DNS timeout.
I'm tempted to leave the behavior as-is. You shouldn't have to do anything for it to eventually connect, but the warning will remain. (Eventually the screen should blank-out if it really can't connect.) Please confirm that it does eventually connect (though display the warning).
It does eventually connect. I think the error message is ugly though, and probably scary for the non-technical Squeezebox owner. Many devices/programs have to put up with waiting for a connection to come up and yet you never see connection failed errors from them. Maybe the error message could be made to be more an informational message, something like "connection could not yet be made, retrying...".
agreed, the error shouldn't be displayed in so short a time.
10 seconds in the latest nightly