The Squeezebox is advertised as being able to stream raw PCM over a 100 Mb/s Ethernet LAN in real time, and that's just what I want it to do.
Phil,
Can you show me where this claim is made? I'd be very surprised if this is true. For a start, the wired port on the SB1 is only 10MB/s (I can't find a spec. sheet to confirm this, but the last point here [1] says:
- faster 100Mbps wired ethernet interface
[1] http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#about2-difference
I've got a wireless SB1, and until recently, I had no problems with dropouts caused by network bandwidth (I too play flac files decoded on the server and streamed as raw PCM).
In my new place, the WAP is further away from the SB and the signal level was low (20% - 40%) and I found I often got dropouts.
I then managed to break the SB aerial so had to get a new one. I picked up one of these [2] and fitted it today. I'm now getting signal strength of a solid 58% and my flacs now play perfectly again.
[2] http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ShopGroupID=3&CategoryID=32&ProductID=260
I agree with the point you make about threading and making the streaming part of slimserver work better, but I don't think the SB or slimserver is particularly at fault in causing your dropouts - there must be something in your environment that is causing the problem. Maybe the port you've got the SB plugged into is not auto-detecting the 10Base-T link? Have you checked?
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
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