On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 03:40 -0700, Deaf Cat wrote:
> Most of my music files will be of the lossless type.
> I think I read somewhere that a 10M g router would be ok for MP3
> files.
802.11b (11mbps) can be OK for lossless music streamed at
full PCM data rates, but it depends on your environment.
I have run a system pretty reliably over the 802.11b for
over a year with minimal dropout problems, but:
a) None of my neighbours have a wireless network
b) I rarely listened to music in the bedroom at the same
time we were using the microwave
c) The SB was reasonably close to my access point
(15 foot and one solid brick wall)
d) Most of the time the SB was the only thing using
the network
Now my SB1 has been moved to the kitchen I get regular
dropouts because of c), and certainly b).
> Would it be a good idea to go for the 54M g when using lossless files
> ?
If you have the choice, I think it's pretty much a no-brainer
to say yes.
If you only ever have SB1's, never plan to get anything
faster than 11b and can stick to the rules listed above,
then you might get away with 11b. 54g access points are
probably almost the same price as 11b, and will work much
better with an SB2.
(Although ironically, since the SB2 can do local flac
decoding and has a bigger buffer it can probably handle
being on an 11b network much better than an SB1 could
- never tried though.)
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