Me too... Having just moved into a new house, rebuffering problems started occurring. Because the new house is much larger than the old one, I couldn't suffice with a single wireless access point. With my laptop in the room where my stereo is I couldn't pick up the signal of the wireless router, that was wired to my server. So I invested in new hardware.
I am now using a wired network with one of the fastest wired routers on the market (Draytek Vigor 2130). A very powerful wireless access point is wired to this router. I mean, if a pigeon flies by too close to it, it's likely to disappear in a puff of feathers. Signal strength on my Squeezebox Duet is indicated to be high (around or over 90% when no other wireless devices are present in the room, dropping to 75-80% when my wife's watching TV on her laptop over the wireless). Still, I am having problems with rebuffering. It's so bad that it's impossible to listen to music over the squeezebox. It starts after about 20 seconds into the first track and it's downhill from there: nothing but interruptions, hiccups, and stuttering. Sometimes the squeezebox can't even connect to my squeezeserver's library. I play uncompressed aiff files (regular 16bit/44.1KHz encoded). The squeezebox's network tester indicates a clean 100% bandwidth @ 5000kbps on the Duet's handset. In the performance menu the priority of the squeezebox has been set at -20 (highest). The home network (both the wired machines and the ones connected wirelessly to the access point) allows for very high download speeds over my cable internet connection. Wired and wireless I can download files from the internet at a stable 46Mbit/s. So data is flowing quite effortlessly. I haven't read all 16 pages of this thread, so forgive me if I'm writing stuff that's already been covered. But I get the feeling that the problem is related to latency in my network. The new router provides for all sorts of "QoS" and "bandwidth management" mechanisms, port prioritizing, etc. Don't know how to turn it all off or if it's even impacting the flow of bits. Oh, I'm on OSX snow leopard and running squeezebox server 7.4.1. My receiver has firmware 65. No solution, but will keep looking. -- kunlun121 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kunlun121's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18101 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65719 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
