In short ... my new router seems to have solved the problems ... or at least for the 4 hours of playback last night I didn't get any rebuffering.
Decided to just switch off the old router and use the new router by itself, i.e. not having an independent wireless network for SC/SB. The misses Vista laptop was complaining like hell and couldn't get on the network, even though my XP was fine ... but that's another story. At first, the new router didn't seem to resolve the problem, until I rotated the two antenna's 90 degrees away from each other, so they are basically laying flat. The router is in the room above the SB3, so maybe this orientation is optimal for vertical coverage. This seemed to make a big difference. My laptop is now getting 130mbps, and the SB3 didn't rebuffer once. I even had a Mythbuntu PC bridged through it and did an upgrade whilst playing FLACs. The download to the Mythbuntu PC was running at around 260kbps, the FLAC was averaging 800kbps, there were two laptops on the wireless network, both using remote desktop and at the same time I was copying files on the HDD's the FLACs were on. I was amazed that rebuffering never happened once, and the peak of traffic between tracks didn't even cause problems. I even played a 24/48 FLAC with no problem, which averaged about 1500kbps. I did try a 24/96 FLAC, but rebuffering occurred, which I think was due to SOX transcoding on my SC machine, rather than wireless bandwidth. I just hope it lasts. Things like antenna orientation and router placement don't give me a warm feeling. Especially if it turns out that it was just because the wind was in the right direction!! -- mprocte1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mprocte1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65719 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
