deano@yesits.freeserve.co.uk hath wroth:

>As a follow up to a previous thread/post...

Which you didn't bother identifying so I have no clue to what you're
referring.

>Is there an amp on the market, that can connect to my Vigor router, via
>one of its ethernet ports, and feed audio from my wireless laptop?

Yes. These are essentially computahs that will decode streaming audio
from the internet or from your computer. Some will also do video. For
example:
http://www.slimdevices.com
The "tuner" can be fed from wired ethernet or wireless. You can also
build your own out of a small form factor PC such as EPIA or mini-ITX
with 5.1 audio.

>I'm just thinking of cutting out the wireless part of the system, if
>this can be done, and is cheaper than buying a dedicated device(s) such
>as a squeezebox or Airport Express and separate amp to power the
>speakers.

That depends on what you're time is worth. There's no magic "ethernet
to audio" converter, which seems to be what your suggesting. There
has to be a way to convert multiple encoded audio streams to 802.3
ethernet and back to analog audio. You also have to have some method
of control. At this time, that means a computah which is not cheap or
simple. Removing the wireless part of the puzzle doesn't save much
money.

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