Getting QU-16 on local wi-fi

[IanParticipant]

Since the day I unpacked the QU-16, I’ve used it with a secondhand router running a tiny network with two clients – the console (connected via Ethernet) and the iPad running Qu-Pad.

For an application in a couple of weeks, we want to put the console in an enclosed space and are concerned about the router’s strength.

This is an college campus with distributed wi-fi, and I’m wondering if I could get the console onto it.

Does the QU-16 have a wireless NIC inside it? Is it a wireless networkable device? If not, can I repurpose the router to make it one?

[JimmyBParticipant]

The QU has to be hard wired to the network. Can you get your router out of the enclosure?

[Mike CParticipant]

First invest in good dual band router and only use the 5g connection.
TP Link Archer C7 and Netgear R7000 are my current router of choices.

I would not just go and plug your mixer into a buildings network without getting their IT department involved, they most likely will want you set up a static IP address on the mixer and they may need the mixer’s MAC address to give it permission on the system network.

With your own personal router I would still set the mixer up with a static IP address, will need to set up the router accordingly as well.

[IanParticipant]

All that is true and warranted. As it happens, my (live production) department is nested inside IT here, so that’s exactly the approach we were going to take – reserved address, authorized by MAC. Thank you for the heads up.

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