bpa;584480 Wrote: > System info and more details always help - for example are you playing > AAC or WMA BBC streams ? AAC need transcoding by PC but WMA are played > natively by player. > > Why have not done the network test on the bedroom player - it is a no > brainer - just run the test from the SB3 menu > Settings/Information/Network Test. This will help isolate the problem > to either network or server. Thank you for persevering
System info is in the first post, but please advise if there's something specific I haven't mentioned. I've looked at the iplayer settings: (home/server settings/BBC iplayer/Prefer WMA streams) and this is unchecked, suggesting that this is AAC. Should I change this to WMA? >From a network point of view, these are the wireless signal strength: Bedroom: 36% Lounge: 28% Boom (kitchen): 81% The wireless router is above the Boom, so I'd expect a high reading there. Bedroom is across from the router and the Lounge is downstairs and diagonally furthest away from the router. For the network tests I did the following: Run both Boom and Lounge at 1mbps (1000kbps) both running: 100% ave: 99% for over 30 mins _at the same time_ I did this purely because I can stand in one place and control both boxes and see both displays. The Bedroom player... now that's something different... I can run the tests at any bit rate, but every time, after exactly 30 seconds, the display switches to Weather Underground (my power off screensaver) However it does not appear to turn off... because when I press right arrow or down arrow, it brings the network test back up. This differs to when the SB is actually powered down, as when you press right, it goes through visibility and precipitation and down arrow advances through the next few days. So - I can't really do a network test on the Bedroom player for more than 30 secs. At 500kbps it's 100%/100%, at 1000mbps it's 100%/99% at 1500kbps it's 100%/99%-ish OK, so then I took the bedroom player downstairs to the same position as the Lounge player. Still appears to turn off after 30 secs, but the network test is pretty bad, even though I've expect it to be comparable to the Lounge player. It pretty much gets up to 320 / 500kbps before it starts to drop packets. After I bring it back upstairs, it's back to the same readings as it was before I tried it downstairs. Do I have a faulty Bedroom unit? Are the wireless signal and network tests within expected tolerances? Is there anyway I can factory reset the Bedroom player? Is this the right course of action? I thank you again for your time with this. Regards, Phil -- spindoctor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ spindoctor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9855 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82526 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
