FLAC shouldn't put your router under particular strain - I'm listening to the excellent new David Gilmour album which I FLAC encoded last night (in fact I used EAC & Mareo to encode it using FLAC and the highest bitrate CBR and VBR options for comparison purposes) No-one else is streaming anything of any consequence off my server (where all the shared music files reside) and the network connection (100Mbps it goes up into a switch in the loft which feeds 3 access points, we have a big house) is showing less than 1% utilisation, so with WPA and TCP/IP overhead taken into account worst case you are only looking at using 5% of the Access Point's capacity. I use Linksys WAP54s (I use Linksys wireless kit exclusively with a Thomson multimedia router, as I wouldn't touch a WAG54 in the UK where we use PPPoA, even the Cisco guys won't buy them through the staff shop as they are so bad!) It is worth replacing the stock antennae with the High gain replacements (HGA7T from memory).
I'm not a Squeezebox expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I've been playing with wireless networks since the days when PCI cards cost 100 quid a piece! Tim -- timmorris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ timmorris's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21866 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
