• Built-in Wi-fi connectivity
• Ethernet Connectivity
• Slacker Personal Radio features
• 6 Preset stations per audio source
• 512MB of built in memory, record approximately 10 hours music

Ethernet WiFi Connection / Connects to Slacker Service / AM/FM / Record up to 10 hours from radio / On-Demand Weather / One Alarm / 8.4 x 3.7 x 6.1 inches

I got this for a Christmas gift.. The set-up was fairly easy. Awesome sound for such a little unit and you can't beat the price! If you're in the market for a Wifi Radio, I highly recommend this unit!

The radio has been working well once I was able to connect directly to the network using the NETGEAR XE103G 85 Mbps Powerline Network Adapter Kit. I was having a lot of problems with dropouts when I tried using the internet radio in a wireless mode. Using the wired mode with the adapters I have not had any problems with interruptions.

I had looked around for a wifi radio and finally settled on the RCA because of the relatively low price. I was astonished at the great sound this unit produces. The setup of the internet portal was easy, as was the setup of the wireless connection.

I don't use the Slacker Radio subscribe option---there's no need to. You can designate as many "favorite" internet stations for free as you want. All the stations I have are actual radio stations streaming their signals on the internet. From WINS 1010 and WCBS 880 in New York to WEEI sports talk in Boston, WLS Chicago, and oldies stations such as WLNG Sag Harbor and a lot of great Vermont stations, I'm all set. It appears you cannot get the BBC stations at this point, but you can get all the CBC stations you could want.

If you have a thumb drive, you can plug it in the back and play all of your itunes with great audio quality, and you can record hours of radio on the unit's internal memory. I'm still getting the hang of the alarm clock settings. And, unless you want a very bright nightlight, go to settings and display to turn the brightness down. All in all, great value for the money. That's probably why it's out of stock as I write this.

I got my RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 in mid November and as so many of the reviews state its a neat radio and I would recommend it. In fact I liked it so much I immediately bought a second one for a Christmas gift. The second radio however was dead on arrival. After a few seconds upon powering it up a message would appear saying something like the WiFi radio module failed to initialize and the radio would lockup. I sent it back to Amazon for an exchange but sadly the replacement will not be sent until well after Christmas.

As a whole the radio works very well but there are some bugs and short comings. I like talk radio so I wanted a radio with AM capabilities. This radio does not have an internal AM antenna and requires an external loop antena which is not very convinent for a bedside clock radio. The external antenna may have been required because the radio seems to generate some RF. Electronic crosstalk can be heard from the speakers when the radio is trying to connect to an internet station or access its Wheather Bug feature.

Occationally when the radio tries to access the internet It locks up for a while if the internet station is unavailable or other internet servers it requires are busy but will usually return to normally afer 10 seconds or so.

The radio has the ability to record audio content to its internal memory and playback recordings from both its memory or from mp3 files stored on an external USB device such as a thumb drive. Playback however does not support fastforward or reverse so if you record say an hour radio program and want to listen to something that is a half-hour into the program you have to play from the beginning and wait a half-hour before you get to the part you want to hear.

There are problems with the weather features of the radio. The radio support a text-to-speech feature which gives the forecast in one of several selectable voices. This stops work over a period of a couple of days. The problem can be fixed for a while by removing power and rebooting the radio. This problem is supposed to be fixed with an update to the firmware. Also the radio has a wheater alert feature but I found that during a snow storm the alert feature becomes a pain. You can't turn the feature totally off (only the sound) and you can not dismiss the alerts.


Firmware updates are a problem too. Updates can be performed directly using the radio's internet connection or installed from a USB device such as a thumb drive. If the thumb drive method is used the firmware is supposed to be available from the company's website but the URL www.infiniteradio.com stated in their FAQs is not correct. I perfer to update the radio manually so if there is a problem with the update I can theoretically restore the radio to a previously working update.

Well so far I have not been able to obtain the firmware and after several days of the radio nagging me that a new update was available every time I turned it on, I let it automatically do the update. I was pretty happy with the radio up to now but not being able to turn off the nagging update feature off with out doing an update is a problem. You can always go to the radio's Setting menu and manually iniate a check for updates. Allowing the radio to update was a big mistake. It updated the radio to firmware 1.2.3.1 but immediatelly I noticed that the AM radio feather was now broken and next to useless.

I sent RCA some email on this but no answer as yet.


The bottom line is the radio has great features but from my experience with the second radio being dead on arrival and the first one broken do to a poorly tested update which I can not back out its a product still in development and has some quality control issues and bugs to be ironed out.

My wife bought me this for my birthday. She probably wishes she didn't. I keep her up at night as I go through all the internet stations each evening. I guess you could say this is the "world's worst alarm clock". I lose at least an hour's sleep each night, playing with the RIR200. It may soon replace my XM radio as my favorite radio. Seriously, the RIR200 is just awesome. Setup is fairly simple. You setup an account online (free), which takes about 5 minutes. You can customize some favorite options if you like. You use your Slacker password if you have one, and the radio will automatically log into Slacker. A free 4 year subscription to WeatherBug is included for instant weather and alerts. After you setup online, you turn on the RIR200 and follow the quick setup guide. Connecting to my WEP wireless network was no problem, and I had the radio up and running in a few minutes. One strange thing is that the full user manual is not included. They send you link to download it after you register. All in all, I just love the RIR200. It performs well. The sound is very good, but by no means Hi-fidelity. If I had to say a negative thing about it, the AM and FM performance is nothing special. No big deal because I'll probably never ever listen to them on this radio anyway. Also, I wish the lowest volume setting wasn't as loud as it is. It's a little loud when trying to fall asleep.

Update:12/18/2008
Audiovox has just released a firmware update today. It seems to have fixed some of the minor issues such as the memory #6 beep, and the volume curve has specifically been updated to allow greater resolution at lower volumes. But, it has introduced a new bug where the AM presets no longer work.