Interesting!

I ran some tests using 'RacoonWorks SpeedTest'
(http://www.raccoonworks.com/Products.htm#SpeedTest) and here are my
conclusions:

1.  Wireless networking speed is a tad slower than with my laptop
wireless NIC, but it's more stable for web browsing and general usage
as my wireless NIC's connection often goes from "Excellent" to "Fair". 
My wireless NIC speed is about 15.25 Mbps, the SB3 was about 13.5 Mbps.

2.  Even with a fully saturated bridged connection and SB3 FLAC
playback, SB3 operation does not interfere much with bridged traffic. 
Obviously there is some slowdown, but the bridged connection's speed is
still quite acceptable and the SB3 does not suffer audio dropouts.  The
only noticeable effect in SB3 operation is a ~5-second pause as the
buffer fills, which is a little longer than normal.  Bridged wireless
speed dropped to 11 Mbps.

3.  I suspect there will be no impact on the bridged network traffic
when the buffer isn't filling since the SB3 is acting like it would be
in standby.  However I forgot to perform this test, but I made a few
mistakes (not reported below) where I mistimed the buffer filling so
that only a part of it took place during the file transfer and I
noticed increased file transfer average speed.

Details of test: the bridged device downloads a 14 MB MP3.  This is
compressed data, as recommended when doing this testing, and it takes
~30 seconds to download so the connection has a chance to stabilize at
a certain speed.

The SB3 is either in standby or playing a FLAC file.  When playing a
FLAC file, I skipped to another track after the bridged file transfer
started in order to cause the SB3 to fill its buffer to 100% while the
bridged traffic saturated the connection.

Attached are the results in graphical format.  The first one compares
the SB3 bridged wireless speed (first 3 bars) versus the laptop
wireless NIC's wireless speed (last 3 bars).  The second one compares
the same SB3 bridged wired speed with the speed obtained when the SB3
was filling its buffer with a FLAC file.

Note that I am in a wireless hellhole.  I am less than 1 km away from a
380 MW FM transmitting tower.  It's so strong I can pick it up on my
subwoofer and my *wired* phone.  I also have 7-12 other wireless
networks in detection range.  So almost everyone's results will be
better than mine.

In conclusion, the wireless bridging function is quite capable and you
will only experience issues when your SlimServer is passing data to the
SB buffer, and even then it will only be for a few seconds.


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