i have a new computer than is equipped with a wireless LAN card and transmitter. I would like to know if there is a Wi Fi receiver that can be plugged into my amplifier in order to stream music from my PC to my amp?

I've looked about ont net and can only find wired systems that have an adapter socket and a 30M cable!

all help gratefully received.

Squeezebox by Slim Devices

http://www.slimdevices.com/

Just what the doctor ordered!

Can output bit-perfect digital (optical) from FLAC/WAV etc if you're a nal about purity.

They're really, really good.

Squeezebox by Slim Devices

http://www.slimdevices.com/

A colleague has one of these and is very pleased with it, I'm going for a Roku Soundbridge though as it supports the DRM that Napster uses...so I will be able to stream music from a 1 million track jukebox

Apple airport express works quite well, been using with my PC for the last year or so. Can also use it to print wirelessly with the USB port and as another wireless access point. The main disadvantage of the airport express is that you have to control your streams with the computer, unlike the systems mentioned above. I have also heard netgear do a music device that works reasonably well. Buffalo do a device called linktheatre which is more designed for streaming video to your TV - I suspect later this year you will see many more of these sorts of device.

Iain

Thanks for that chaps. Plenty to be investigating cheers.

You can control the streams using the remote control on the Squeezebox.

I notice the squeeze box uses wifi in 802.11g and the Roku uses wifi in 802.11b format. I've looked this up and apparently g is better than b. Anyone know why though? Is it worth spending an extra $99 ?

b is 22mbit/s and g is 54mbit/s. b is fine for streaming audio over a wireless network but if you plan to run another pc or laptop on your wifi network then remember the bandwidth will be shared so g might be the better option in that case. You can use b type devices on a g based network though so no probs with backwards compatibility.

I'm currently saving up for a wireless music player, so by the time I can afford it, it'll problay have improved. The Squeeze box is top of the pile at the moment. Cheers josh.

just to add b is 11Mbps and throughput for both is about 5/6M for b and high 20s/30M for g. Also if you have a g access point and a mix of b and g clients, the g clients will be slowed down by the presence of the b clients. So yes backward compatible, but best if you keep g access point with g clients if you can.

just to add b is 11Mbps and throughput for both is about 5/6M for b and high 20s/30M for g. Also if you have a g access point and a mix of b and g clients, the g clients will be slowed down by the presence of the b clients. So yes backward compatible, but best if you keep g access point with g clients if you can.

Apologies, you are quite right. b=11Mbps, b+=22Mbps and g=54Mbps

I finally got my finger out (or should I say my wallet) and bought a Roku Soundbridge. They've come down in price now to