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. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: SB3 alone vs. playing FLAC.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=611| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19612 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
