If you connect all of your NuVo players to your router through ethernet, you don’t need to buy the Gateway. NuVo claims that the system can support up to 16 audio streams simultaneously, with each stream carrying data at up to 600 kbps (more on this later). The Gateway is capable of transmitting and receiving two 150-megabits-per-second spatial streams for a maximum wireless data rate of 300 mbps. Photograph: Robert Cardin NuVo Technologies’ Gateway GW100 is a required component if you want to operate Player P100 and Player P200 modules wirelessly. As with Sonos systems, the NuVo wireless networks operate independently of any conventional Wi-Fi networks you might also be running. Each NuVo player can connect to either network and play media from the same music sources, namely your local library or one of the music services that the system supports. The Gateway creates two MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) networks, one on the 2.4GHz frequency band and one on the 5GHz frequency band. In some respects, NuVo’s system is inferior to what Sonos currently offers.įor the system to operate wirelessly, you must purchase NuVo’s Gateway GW100 and connect that component to your router using an ethernet cable. After comprehensive evaluation, however, I must report that consumers will have to wait a little longer for a market shakeup: NuVo’s Player P100, Player P200, and Gateway GW100 deliver only incremental improvements over the much-less-expensive Sonos ecosystem. So when I heard that NuVo Technologies was finally shipping the multiroom audio system it first demonstrated at an industry trade show way back in the fall of 2011, I couldn’t wait to hear it. There is no better way to advance the state of the art.
When one company comes to dominate a market in the fashion that Sonos rules the midrange, multiroom audio scene today, I’m always delighted to see a challenger emerge with a superior product that exploits the weaknesses in the champion’s calcifying armor.
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