I run a Netgear DG834g. My furthest SB3 struggles intermittently (usually when trying to play music for a guest!). It's about as far away from the router as it could be in a small 3 bed semi with the added problem of a central chimney to obscure coverage. Having said that, a bog standard Centrino laptop placed next to the SB3 has no trouble maintaining 9Mbs throughput & Netstumbler shows a nice, steady signal. However, the SB3 struggles with a 1Mbs test & regularly shows signal dipping into single figures. These symptoms are identical with 2 different SB3s in this location & were much worse when I flirted with the first official release of SqueezeCenter. This seems to suggest that the Wi-Fi hardware implementation in the SB3 or drivers in the firmware aren't all that.
Now I know I can run homeplugs & it may come to that but I'd like to hear what routers other UK users are using & over what range. I have tried the DG834PN MIMO & also the DG834 draft n & found no difference at all. It would also be very interesting to here from within Slim Towers what they use to benchmark Wi-Fi performance. -- rbz5416 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rbz5416's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12089 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54691 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
