CD quality WAV is 1.4Mbit/s, in my experience FLAC is around 1Mbit/s, but will vary with compression levels. Therefore a standard 100Mbit ethernet will be just fine for streaming to 20 players - I wouldn't even try wireless unless you're happy to invest in multiple high quality (expensive) access points and repeaters.
To answer your other questions - Slimserver can't currently take much advantage of multiple processors. There would be a small improvement, but if I were spec'ing a big Slimserver install right now I'd be looking at a cluster of lower powered units. Grab a couple of dirt cheap ($300) athlon based boxes, throw in some big disks and more memory and spread the load. There's not currently any concept of "users" or selectable libraries in Slimserver, but many people have asked for it. Maybe one day :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18903 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
