Swimmerbird123;454065 Wrote: > My experience, in case it is useful: > > Running 7.3.2 on Linux server, wired to Zoom X6 gateway router > (firmware 2.1.5 from 2007), wireless G to SB3, streaming flac and > internet radio. After installing 7.3.2 back in March, things worked > pretty well for a couple of months and then gradually degraded to the > point of near unusability, with frequent 'rebufferings' and 'cannot > connect'. I wondered whether new software had been pushed to player > without notification. A wireless laptop running Vista sitting close to > the SB3 kept working fine with long downloads from internet or > hours-long back ups and maintenance of music library on the remote > server. > > Most frustrating was internet radio - player would connect for maybe a > minute or two and then stop, sometimes reconnecting after another minute > or two, but more often just 'cannot connect' - player would freeze and > be unable to change to music library or scroll through radio stations. > Direct radio streaming from internet to a computer worked OK, so it > wasn't just that the radio station was kicking out the connection. When > the SB3 wouldn't connect and offered the option to try again or go left, > re-attempting the connection still would not connect at all for long > enough to get sound out of the player, even after multiple tries, yet > the nearby laptop kept connecting without problem. > > Just the other day I purchased a new router, Linksys WRT160N, and am > running it in wireless-G mode. All my 'cannot connect' and > 'rebufferings' seem to have vanished, the Squeezebox is working great > again. So I evidently had network problems that were causing my > difficulty. > > I don't think the problem was wireless signal strength, since the > laptop near the SB3 connected fine, and with the new router, the > strength in the SB3 player is still only 45% or so. So I wonder whether > perhaps older routers don't handle the streaming or hand-shaking as well > for some reason. Or that the error-handling in the SB3 was not very > robust and when radio station got lost or the connection broke for > whatever reason, the player couldn't recover properly. > > Anyway, I wonder whether Logitech couldn't do something to improve the > robustness of the SB3 performance, even on suboptimal networks. I > remember back in the 90's when the Sun computer company (big unix > installations) suddenly realized it was not enough just to list the > requirements of a proper operating environment, but that their customers > simply weren't able to establish or maintain those by themselves. The > company CEO wrote that it was like a revelation, and that it became part > of the company's job to help them maintain those. Logitech obviously > can't maintain home networks for people, but perhaps they could provide > a suite of tools or other robust evaluation procedures to pinpoint where > the network problems are. > > Anyway, I am glad my Squeezebox is working reliably again, and I > apologize to it for all those bad thoughts I had about it being a piece > of crap. > > Swimmer
They have some rudimentary tools, the wireless strength number (btw 45% is low ? ) alas logitech should come forward with some numbers that y% is enough for mp3 streams and x% is enough for flac or similar. And have you seen the network test in squeezecenter or the controller ? You can test different streamingrates from very low rates and up to 5000kbps knowing that a flac stream is roughly 800kpbs you know what to expect. The controller has a diagnostic setting that can tell the IP settings in your players and see if you can connect your server or squeezenetwork ( I think this is in beta ? ) it even pings squeezenetwork. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- No it can NOT be controlled with iTunes.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65719 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
