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On 22/04/2018 at 9:12 PM, Luc said:

Networking is never easy I've found and when your dealing with Windows and Windows 10(L) in particular with it's constant and intrusive updates(whether you want them or not 0-o) you quite often get up in the morning to find your pc which in my case runs 24/7 has updated and awaits your password to open up and when you do...Bill Gates has been in and rearranged things to the way M$ likes to see things.

and that quite often means that peripherals get dropped by the wayside or windoze Defender has decided it'll block certain things despite your specific exceptions.

 

This I'm sure has something to do with the problems I'm experiencing.

At bit off topic but it may assist with networking problems and issues for Windows update for some of you?

 

You might like to look here https://www.askwoody.com (WARNING a LOT to read!!) to catch up on just what is going or not going on with Windows updates and the problems the updates are causing.

Bill Gates is not closely tied to Microsoft anymore and I think that is one reason why Microsoft is a shambles at present and with no immediate improvement on the horizon.

 

Networking issues can be sorted if you have some tools to help you out, you might try "wnetwatcher" https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wnetwatcher_setup.exe which will search your network and show what is connected and the IP addresses of the various connections.

Important in fault finding and seeing if any connections are being made to your network without your knowledge.

 

The Nirsoft site https://www.nirsoft.net has some good tools for looking around your computer.

[Guest Sime]

I’d dare anyone to tell the difference between a Node2 compared to any other streamer being played through an outboard DAC. To me it’s spending more than you need to.

 

And sorry @Darren69, it’s still in use. 

[Darren69]

Have sourced the Naim Uniti Core and will go that way, a new thread methinks.

 

Thank you all for your thoughts and comments, as always.