Just how much interference does a microwave cause? How close to wireless router or an SB does a microwave have to be in order for their to be noticeable noise? I've operated 802.11b devices within a 10 foot radius of a microwave without noticing signal degradation. (Now I'll have to put my SB next to a microwave to find out)
You can get signal loss with 10Base-T if for some reason you decide to use a cable that's over 328 feet long, but that's a pretty extreme case for most of us. Yan On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:09:13 +0000, Robin Bowes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: > > Jeffrey Gordon wrote: > > > >> Bennett, Gavin (LDN Int) wrote: > >> > >>> The bit for SlimDevices to read, please make it..... > >>> a) WiFi at 80211.g > > > > > > > > >> a) I do not understand why this is so important to people. If you > >> really want G then get the wired only and get a Bridge. For music and > >> even FLAC, B is more than enough. My entire collection of music is in > >> FLAC format and stream it to my SB via 802.11B without any problems. G > >> is just not needed. And the problem with Slimdevices chasing the > >> 802.11x standard is that it is currently in a stage of constantly > >> changeing. soon people are going to be shouting from the roof tops why > >> doesn't my SB support 802.11N. > > > > > > This is simply not true. Streaming PCM audio over 802.11b is tenuous > > at best. The bandwidth required and the shallow buffer on the SB make > > it unsuitable for most applications. > > <sign> Just do the math... > > 802.11b bit rate: 11Mb/s > > PCM bit rate: 44,100 x 16 x 2 = 1.41 Mb/s > > Even allowing for other traffic, there is ample bandwidth to stream PCM > over 801.11b - I'm doing it here (flac files streamed as PCM) without > any network dropouts whatsoever. > > > Dropouts occur with every > > telephone and microwave event. > > That's a different issue. No wireless solution works well in a noisy > environment. 11g is better in this respect. > > > Now given that 802.11g is still > > 2.4GHz what would be the nicest is a a/b/g solution but that will > > only happen if slimdevices goes to a 32bit card and that means new > > hardware. Native FLAC would also really help but that's been on the > > back burner so long that I've pretty much given up on ever seeing > > it. > > > > Anyhow, I long ago went wired where I want FLAC and simply want to > > point out that wireless (at least 802.11b) just sucks in most > > applications with realworld interference and typical distances > > from an access point. > > Incidentally, the wired interface is only 10BaseT, i.e. 10Mb/s (that's > less than 11b). Of course, there's no inteference problem with wired. > > > If it works for you then great, but I suspect > > that some or all of the following are true: you are close to you access > > point and/or it has little to block the signal; you and your neighbours > > have no microwaves or cordless phones; you have some directional > > antenna setup. > > And if it doesn't work for you, I'm sorry to hear that but I suspect > some or all of the following are true: > > You are too far from your access point > You're in a noisy environment > Your antenna is faulty/has a loose connection and/or is plugged into the > "wrong" port internally (search the lists for details of this issue and > how to fix it > > Incidentally, what signal strength do you get with your wireless SB? > > R. > -- > http://robinbowes.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > -- Yan Tran http://www.yantran.com _______________________________________ Why do people run from me? --Ralph Wiggum _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
