then be streamed from the player 110 over the wireless network 306 and rendered by the speaker 310 3 or other appropriately configured rendering device in the case of music such arrangement advantageously enables the user 105 to control playback of content through the speaker 310 3 from a location that falls anywhere within the footprint of the wireless network 306 in addition the user may wirelessly connect to other devices on the network in a similar manner fig1 is a flowchart of an illustrative method 1000 for automatically transferring network information between docked devices the user 105 starts by using the wireless network setup utility 410 to configure the access point 312 with a user selected network id and key 1005 the user 105 then docks the personal media player 110 to the pc 320 1 or synchronizes wirelessly 1010 so that the network information including a network id and key can be transferred to the player 110 and stored 1015 the user 105 can then connect or dock the player 110 to an accessory device such as the speaker 310 3 1020 after docking the network information is automatically transferred from the player 110 to the accessory device 1025 and an accessory device id is transferred from the device to the player 110 1030 the user 105 can then undock or disconnect the personal media player 110 from the accessory device 1035 using the transferred network information the accessory device can discover the wireless network and join.