After giving myself a six-month breather from the SB waiting for the software to mature, I hooked up my SB1 last night and I'm having problems. I'm willing to accept that the problem is with my configuration but I need a little help with the diagnosis.
The problem: audio playback will pause/choke for 5-10 seconds every few minutes. The setup: File Server Computer: Windows 2000 PC, P3-500 with 512MB RAM and one 250GB EIDE hard drive, 10/100 card. The server is not running any hosting services, it's merely a Windows 2K server with an active shared directory. SlimServer Computer: (version downloaded last night, but not a nightly) Mac Mini running OS 10.4 with all updates, 1.42GHz G4, 1GB RAM, 10/100 card. The Mac isn't used for anything other than e-mail, iTunes, etc. I'm not running bittorrent clients or anything nutty that would eat up the bandwidth. Both servers are hooked to a Linksys router/WAP/switch combo (WAP 54G, I believe) with the latest firmware (factory). All the cables check out and are terminated T568-B (as though it matters). I'm running SlimServer on the Mac Mini because I use iTunes on the Mac with my iPod. The iTunes .xml file is stored on the Mac Mini but the music files are on a network share on the file server. I'm using the analog outputs of the SB1, not the digital. Library scanning doesn't take very long but I have approximately 500 CDs ripped in APPLE LOSSLESS. Streaming from Internet radio sources seems to be working just fine so I'm leaning towards a file transfer bottleneck somewhere. On the other hand, I can open iTunes on the Mac and stream music off the server just like it were on the local hard drive without a hint of hiccup. Is the problem: 1. Buffering problems with large file sizes over the network 2. Bottleneck caused by the (presumably) slow file server 3. Bottleneck caused by the file transfer twixt server & Mac 4. Slimserver in general 5. SB1 in general 6. Network Topography 7. SlimServer being separated from music files on a different machine 8. Sunspots 9. Other Thanks! -- hualon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hualon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19087 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
