The SB is connected via a wired connection.

I was looking at the server activity and I noticed that on the Mac Mini
(the Slim Server), I'm not receiving a sustained stream of incoming data
from the file server.  

When I look at the graph on the file server, I can see that it's
transmitting data out not at a sustained bitrate but in pulses.  The
graph for the transmission data line peaks at 200KB/s or so and then
plummets to 0KB/s for a second or so and then peaks back up.

So if I stop the SB playing and I stream the exact same file from the
server into iTunes on the Mac Mini, I get a sustained transfer speed
from the server of 130KB/s - 145KB/s with no plummets below that.

So it seems that when SlimServer (on the Mac Mini) requests a file,
there are periodic dropouts from the server's transmission line but
when iTunes (on the Mac Mini) requests the same file, there's a
consistent data stream with no dropouts.

So... is the problem the buffer in the SB1?  That's very frustrating if
that's the case since it's *supposed* to be capable of playing lossless
files.  I've had this problem since day 1 when I bought the SB1 new and
nobody ever suggested that  the SB could be the problem since there are
so many other variables in the system.


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