iPhone;375006 Wrote: > Slim Devices has made it more then clear on this Forum that they *Do Not > Intend* to go to "N" anytime soon or in the near future. Could that > change tomorrow, sure. > > Past reasons for not moving to "N": > There is not a standardized official specification at this time. > It would add an unnecessary expense to unit cost. > Most importantly, its not really needed for what the Squeezeboxes do at > this time.
The standard is not finalized, but it seems pretty finalized. Vendors that claim 802.11n support clearly say it's "draft", and supposedly unlikely to change very much (which is unfortunate, since supposedly as soon as your neighbor upgrades to 802.11n, it will interefere with the 802.11g/b bands, forcing adoption of 802.11n...). But on the other hand, while I agree that bandwidth is not a bottleneck for music transmission, it may help response time of slim client devices. But then again I also assume that the bottleneck then quickly becomes the processing power on said slim client. By all means, though, I think a product like the Controller could potentially benefit from additional bandwidth. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 & Ubuntu 8.10 64 Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom (2), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tuned by Darmstadt Psychoacoustics Lab Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57042 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
