I like to bring my Boom and SBR with me when we visit the parents, problem is their "high speed" internet isn't very fast or reliable. Both Rhapsody and Pandora require re-buffering frequently enough to make them unlistenable for more than a song or so. I've connected the Boom via ethernet (to rule out flaky WiFi issues,) confirmed there are no other devices eating up bandwidth, and still have problems with both Pandora and Rhapsody. To me, this indicates poor internet service. This same setup works fine at my house, on an 18 Mbps connection.
When I go to speedtest.net, the numbers vary from test-to-test, but I seem to generally get: Ping = 70 - 100 ms (although once it came back at 1200 ms) Download = 0.7 - 0.9 Mbps Upload = 0.12 Mbps So my questions: - Is it unreasonable to expect to maintain a 192 kbps stream on such a connection? - How does the ping latency come into play? - Is there anything I can do from my end, without complaining to the ISP? I've tried increasing the "Radio Station Buffer" in SqueezeCenter, but it seems to have no effect. It doesn't even seem to buffer the amount I set it to. (Example, I can set it to buffer 15 seconds, and still experience 2 drop outs in a 10 second span of time.) Any ideas or suggestions for improving this are much appreciated. (BTW, streaming local stuff works fine.) Thanks, Andy -- ajkidle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ajkidle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66134 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
