about to buy lemur?

[Spiritos]

Disagree that only an ad hoc connection will give you usable results. If you're trying to play drums or something, sure, but for tweaking controls, pulling down a fader, whatever, regular wifi works perfectly well.

The thing with wifi is: It can always be interrupted by other mechanical devices or waves. You just can't rely on it. Some gameservers for instance now block people that connect through wifi.

[aMUSEd]

Disagree that only an ad hoc connection will give you usable results. If you're trying to play drums or something, sure, but for tweaking controls, pulling down a fader, whatever, regular wifi works perfectly well.

If you're lucky but it's hit and miss. In this guy's experience clearly it's more miss, as it was in mine. If you want a reliable wifi connection, particularly if you want low latency (which is what I was referring to), ad hoc is best.

[monsterism]

so no dice with an io dock despite usb?

[aMUSEd]

Sorry no idea about that - might be better to ask Liine themselves if they support it.

[ghettosynth]

If an ad-hoc connection will solve the bandwidth problem, i.e. the bottleneck isn't related to conflict in the RF space, then, a much simpler and reasonably cheap solution that is reliable for windows is to simply use another wifi-router as your dedicated touch osc network. This is assuming that you don't need to be connected to the internet when you're doing music.

Just plug the router in, set it up with a password so that nobody else tries to connect to it and connect both of your devices to it. Almost all of the advantages of an ad-hoc connection and none of the hassle. The only downside is the cost, but, you can probably get something that works at your thrift store for a few bucks.

Ad-hoc networks work well enough on macs but seem to be a bit more hassle on windows. This method works reliably for both.

[aMUSEd]

Ad-hoc networks work well enough on macs but seem to be a bit more hassle on windows. This method works reliably for both.

Absolutely - one reason I moved to Mac actually. However I tested Connectify for quite a while on Windows and it does an excellent job and makes the process pretty foolproof.

[monsterism]

Sorry no idea about that - might be better to ask Liine themselves if they support it.

well if anyone can test it with touchosc and livecontrol that be helpful

[ghettosynth]

Ad-hoc networks work well enough on macs but seem to be a bit more hassle on windows. This method works reliably for both.

Absolutely - one reason I moved to Mac actually. However I tested Connectify for quite a while on Windows and it does an excellent job and makes the process pretty foolproof.

Good to know. I should add, that there are other reasons for setting up a "music" network a I've described. I use this method in coffee shops when I'm out jamming/writing with other people. Since you can connect the pc/mac to the router with ethernet, your computer's wifi is free to connect to the internet. Further, since your friends can also connect with ethernet, you have a fast network between the two+ computers. We use this with wormhole to listen to each other's mixes, or jam together, over wormhole.

In fact, if anyone can recommend a very nice little compact/portable router, I'm all ears. I haven't liked any that I've seen so far. I've been using this method with old linksys routers, they work fine, but they're a bit bulky.