Bush TR2015 Wi-Fi Internet Radio Review

Overall Rating

Good Quality Sound,Nice Modern Styling.

Small Display.

Not had this long so I may need to update later. So far so good. Had problems connecting to my network to begin with - It turned out my neighbor also has BT Home Hub so I was in fact trying to connect to HIS network - Oh how I laughed. This was caused by the only real fault which I have found with the unit so far and that is the small display. Bush have used a display similar to the ones found on DAB radios. Unfortunately these displays do not have many characters so there is very little information shown. Once connected everything seemed great. Thousands of channels, all separated into Genre or Location. There is a delay when selecting a channel as it needs to be buffered. This differs on each channel and from what I have seen so far can range from a couple of seconds to over a minute. This is the nature of Internet radio and is not a fault of the radio. Next we tried listening to a few files stored on our PC. This took quite a while to set up. All the radio could find was the BT Home Hub Router (Shown as Thomson - Samba Server). I thought maybe the firewall was stopping access to the PC. But this was not the problem. I checked that file sharing was selected for my music folder, which it was but still no joy. A few searches on the internet turned up a lot of "Computer Experts" who gave lists and lists of settings to change on my PC which of course did nothing but render it useless until the settings were reversed. (I'm sure these people make it up as they go along). Here's what I did in the end (And I'm by no means a computer expert). The BT Home Hub is in a work group called "Bt". No surprise there. But my home network when I set it up was by default named "MSHOME". So I simply reran the network wizard and this time changed the default "MSHOME" setting to "Bt". Problem solved. (Does this now make me a computer expert?). Now the radio shows all my files and plays them brilliantly. Hardly any buffer time and the sound quality is more than good enough for use in the kitchen. Again the only problem is the display which doesn't show a lot of information. The track playing is displayed although it is only the first few characters and then this scrolls across after quite a long wait. I think continuous scrolling would maybe have made things better. and also if the Artists name were shown. So other than the display and the connection problems (which were no fault of the radio) I would recommend this radio to anyone. Good job Bush.

Members' Comments onteescottage's Review

• ESTOERP on 31st Jul 2008

  It has an ethernet port???????
  
  Thanks for a reply,