My Roon installation has been work for about 5 years without any issues. In the last 6 months, the Roon Server can not find the ID41 card although it has an IP address (as indicated by ARP and DHCP Tables). I can also access the ID41’s settings web page via a browser. As part of my diagnostic tests, I used a long ethernet cable and connected the ID41 directly to a Draytek Vigor 2862 LAN port and it performs flawlessly. The Roon Server can see all of the MC600 zones and play music through each and all of them.
Sorry to say it but the answer is right here. For the best, most reliable performance, a wired connection to a Meridian device is the way to do it. Powerline, wireless bridging, etc. in a residential setting using consumer grade widgets may work for a while but by and large most eventually fail or have connectivity problems later on.
Unless you are willing to spend big money on a commercial Cisco router with a wireless LAN controller and two wireless access points in bridge mode. By big money I am talking well over ten grand by the time all the licenses, service agreements, and professional configuration is added in. In the commercial side of things I did a project for some hospitals so that they could have wireless video diagnostic carts using Polycom video conference systems mounted on a mobile cart. It was very time consuming to get it to work as specified but once done it has been working without any hiccups for nearly ten years.
In the end, you have to ask yourself "what is my time worth?". When you figure in all the time and frustration you will expend fiddling with the widgets trying to get them to work, getting a ethernet connection to that room becomes more possible and a lot cheaper than you ever imagined.
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