Many of you will say this is overkill, but if you really want to troubleshoot things, here are the steps to identify the problem.
If you are experiencing issues, here are some steps to see if the Duet problem is purely wifi/environment related: Make sure your SB receiver is plugged into a wired ethernet connection directly on the router switch port! No homeplug, no wifi, a real old fashioned ethernet wired connection. Use a very long ethernet cable if you need it! Install SB Server on a dedicated machine that is not doing any tasks except serving SB. Password protect it so nobody in the family can use it. Make sure you install SB Server on a clean OS install, not an old pc with ten million shareware apps that are hogging resources. The machine should have good specs, at least 2 gb ram, 1.0ghz cpu. Unplug all wireless devices in your house including phones, wireless doorbells, ham radios, etc. Anything that uses a radio should be shut off. Disable all laptops that are using wifi. Make sure nobody on your home network is using the network/internet, especially video sharing, ip cameras, etc, streaming audio/video, VOIP, Vonage etc. Make sure your wifi access point is not located near any metal objects, especially anything with electronic components. For testing purposes, put it right in the middle of your testing room. Make sure your wifi access point is high quality device, not a 20 dollar special. Think of all the engineering that goes into manufacturing a wifi access point, there is lots of quality issues if you have a poor device. Make sure it has good clean power from a UPS. At this point, you have a pristine environment to test the duet handheld controller. Now it is the ONLY device on the wifi network and it is just sending *very small* data commands to the receiver (ie Play, Next, Up, Down, etc). This is known as a "dedicated wireless control network" because the wireless network is dedicated to only sending very lightweight commands, it is NOT competing with a million other bandwidth robbing things. Make sure your wifi access point is very close to the duet handheld controller, this will ensure that the signal is very strong. If you have a weak signal the battery has to work overtime on the controller and it will drain faster. The closer / stronger your signal is to the wifi access point the better control signals you will be sending. Ok, lets assume everything works great for a few days, you have no audio drop outs, the controller is very responsive, everything works perfectly. Now you can start to do things like turn on your house phone. Then test it for a few more days and slowly add more things to the environment till you find the devices/human behaviours that are causing the performance problems. Another thing you could do is create a "control only" wifi network that is dedicated 100% to the duet handheld controller. No other devices (laptops, etc) are allowed to use this wifi network. That way its resources are dedicated 100% to the controller traffic. -- huytere ------------------------------------------------------------------------ huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
