It would also be beneficial to folks using their Slim Devices are wireless bridges.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:05 PM, pablolie < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
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