andy_c Wrote: > Mark, > > Wow, I had pretty much given up on this - then I was just browsing the > forum and saw your thorough, detailed posts. Thank you very much! >
You're welcome, I just hope it will work for you. I think it will. > > Now, regarding this issue: > > I'm trying to be able to stream data to the Squeezebox without using > any kind of wireless connection at all - except for internet radio. > This would be for minimizing the possibility of dropouts or glitches. > But it looks like that can't happen with the configuration I had > proposed in my original post. > > So how about this idea? Suppose I got, say, a USB wireless adapter for > the server. Then file transfers between the server in the living room > and my main computer in the spare bedroom would go through the wireless > USB adapter. How about if I enabled internet connection sharing (ICS) > on the server and connected its ethernet port (from the built-in NIC on > the mobo) to the ethernet port on the Squeezebox. Then the Squeezebox > would be configured for a plain old wired connection, with no wireless > or bridging or anything like that. Does this sound like it would work? I don't know much about ICS. As I understand it, it turns the *PC* into a bridge, either wired or wireless. The Squeezebox and the server would not necessarily see each other in this mode. I could be wrong, but ICS is just that - Internet Connection Sharing - it shares the Internet connection to devices downstream, but does not allow traffic between a downstream PC and the ICS PC. The ICS PC is not acting as a proper router, it doesn't know what IP address is where, nor can it direct LAN packets to their appropriate destination, only WAN (Internet) packets. The wireless connection is not bad at all! There are no glitches, playback is perfect. There can be dropouts if the buffer underruns though, but the buffer is really quite large - you ought to try it with an MP3 some time, it really takes a long time to empty. There are various tests you can do to see if you have the required bandwidth. For example, try the Network Test Plugin: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18149 If you can achieve 1500 kbps (2000 kbps preferred) at 100% you will never experience a dropout with FLAC. As I said in my post, I am in a very poor wireless networking situation. Yours is almost surely better than mine. I have never experienced a dropout caused by wireless bandwidth starvation. The drawbacks of your apartment situation is the presence of other wireless networks. But the advantages are less distance and no floor/ceiling to go through. I am going through 2 walls, 1 floor and 30-40 feet of air. -- 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
