PNCD;189082 Wrote: > Less important is the WiFi standard. Many g network adaptors can be > firm/soft-ware upgraded to Draft-n (Apple did this recently) to provide > more capacity for streaming and more range. Is this something than can > be upgraded to give us a better bit-stream, especially for higher data > formats on more crowded home networks. The wifi card in the transporter is a mini-pci device. If price/demand make the change necessary, SD could offer an 802.11n upgrade. I'm not saying they will, 11g provides sufficent bandwidth for several standard FLAC streams.
Also, why would you want draft support, this stuff is basicaly throw-away. If you remember 802.11b+ that some companies like d-link were selling, this stuff was "Draft 802.11g".. but of course the standard changed between draft and final, and if you have an 11b+ device, it's useless on a 11g-only network. Software updates aside, using draft level standards is a bad idea. Especially for Slim Devices. > Least important is the Ethernet wire standard that is stuck at 10/100 > and misses on Gigabit Ethernet. There is almost no cost differential > in a built-in Gigabit Ethernet versus the slower ones. You are missing one thing. I believe the NIC in the transporter is not an external chip. It is built-in to the main Ubicom CPU chip. There is no need for gige anyway, even un-compressed audio is fairly low bandwidth. FLAC compressed CD audio only needs 0.8-1.0 Mbps. You would need 100 Transporters to saturate the slimserver at 100mbit. Even if you did that, you could easily run the slimserver with gige, and the transporters at 100mbit. Ethernet switches will just take care of the rate conversion. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33769 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
