I have a duet and boom in the house and the boom works 100% fine but the
duet is suffering from re-buffering problems that are confounding me. In
most cases the Duet and Boom are tuned to a BBC Radio 4 stream (the same
config) and the Boom never chokes but the Duet does periodically and by
periodically I mean it can go long periods without any issue but when it
hits a "trouble period" it tends to re-buffer frequently (as much as
once per minute or so). Let me tell you what I know/think:

- WiFi signal strength to both Boom and Duet are pretty strong although
Duet is slightly stronger (so I don't think it's WIFI signal-to-noise
ratio)
- To optimise WiFi I did scan for neighbourhood interference and did
change channels to optimise. Again, don't think it's the WiFi signal to
the wireless base station where the problem is happening.
- I saw somewhere in this forum that you could turn on a display to show
buffering information. Turns out that's only on the Boom (which has a
display) not the duet. The display is a bit confusing and so far it
hasn't helped me ... I can get more specific but for now I'm assuming
this is more of a distraction
- Today there was a "bad patch" where the re-buffering problem was
happening so I switched the radio to play some local iTunes music and
the problems disappeared. I tuned back to BBC Radio 4 and the problem
returned. During this same time the Boom was tuned to BBC Radio 4 the
whole time and never had a problem.
- The Boom and Radio are getting their signal from different WiFi
routers but are on the same network (e.g., 192.168.1.x) and all other
devices behave exactly the same running off both routers.

For my sanity (and my wife's) could someone help us figure out how to
troubleshoot this further? 

Ken

p.s. does anyone know if the Duet has a smaller internal buffer than the
Boom?


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