Beolink Wireless

I am going to move to a new house, currently I have a number of rooms linked to my audio system via Masterlink. I cant really run cables again in the new place as it maybe split across 3 floors - I was thinking Beolink Wireless would be the answer. I only want to link three rooms - the Music Room which will have the stereo in it, the kitchen which is next door and the sittiing room which is on the first floor. I have some questions:

1) I read about the software versions having to be the same - can I still get this done at a dealer or is there some software I can get on my PC to do this? or does it still matter? is there any software version to avoid?

2) Will they cause any downgrade to my Wiresless network speed and coverage and also I have Beocom 6000 - will that be affected?

Any help much appreciated.

I've had the Beolink Wireless 1's and here's my experience:

1. All units must have the same software version. I had a dealer friend, or should I say now ex dealer friend, use the s/w tool to make sure they were all the same. It's something a dealer has to do using a special tool, but I don't know more than that.

2. They operate on the 2.4 GHz area of the spectrum, but are not wifi but share spectrum with it. I'd advise if possible moving everything else you have to the 5 GHz band, if you can. Range can be an issue with 5 GHz though so you may or may not be able to. Also, things like your microwave oven can interfere with them.

3. They are not reliable at all in my experience, they are prone to dropouts and you have to fiddle with orientation of them with respect to each other, receiver to transmitter, a lot to find a configuration that halfway works. I moved everything to 5 GHz, and live on a large lot (~3 acres) so that I can usually not even see my neighbors wifi networks, so that for a while sort of worked. Then I got a new wireless house alarm system and for some reason it stomps all over the Beolink. Doesn't affect my wifi, even the 2.4 GHz band, but it sure gave the Beolink Wireless units fits. It'd drop out every minute or so like clockwork.

4. I found that I kept having to change units. I wound up getting 6 of them in a group deal, and after a while the units I used stopped working for some unknown reason. I'd swap a different unit out for one of them and they'd start working again, but I never could figure out why and gave up.

Like you I have a house that's really hard to run wires through, so I had high hopes they'd work but the whole experience left me very underwhelmed at best. I like MasterLink, it's really all I need and it, when wired, works so well, but these for me anyway were hopeless. Try and see if you can borrow the units to try them in your house before putting down money on them, there's a chance they'll work but the odds are against it in my experience.

I wound up getting some Tibo streaming units that can all be synchronized, one into my BS9000, one into my BL8000s, and one into Beolit 15 via line in, to replace the Beolinks. Not the same, can't listen to CDs on it, but I can stream Spotify and TuneIn radio to all speakers, so it's close enough for what I need.

Good luck with it. Hope this helps.

Hi Jeff

Thank you so much for this feedback - I think what I will do is wait until I have the house and then try and find a way of running cables.

Thanks again - saved me spending money on something that may not work properly

Cheers

Andrew

Hi Jeff

Thank you so much for this feedback - I think what I will do is wait until I have the house and then try and find a way of running cables.

Thanks again - saved me spending money on something that may not work properly

Cheers

Andrew

Another option, depending of how much of the gear you have allready, could be buy a ml/nl converter for the music room and connect that to the WiFi via an adapter and have NL speakers/essence/core in the other rooms