May have got to the bottom of this. The switch in question has actually
completely failed tonight. For now have replaced it with a nearby Apple
Airport Express which extends my Airport Extreme wifi network. Buffer
remains full throughout a songs playback. SO back goes the switch for a
replacement.
Ian
Ah, those fine NetGear products. I once was asked to troubleshoot a DS3 which was running at 4 Mbps instead of 45... I go look in the data center, and between the Catalyst 5500 backbone switch and the Sun E420 Check Point FireWall-1 there is a... 25-port NetGear. Customer will not believe that it could possibly be the problem, so I have to spend a day monitoring the firewall and the switch and the telco to prove that they aren't the problem. He still won't believe me. So I propose that we wrap the whole rack in tinfoil to isolate it from EMF... or we could maybe try taking the NetGear out. Shockingly, when we replaced it with a patch cable, the problem went away instantly. Too bad, I was looking forward to the tinfoil :)
To be fair, NetGear is not alone in shipping cheap junk... I've gotten plenty of poor performance and DOA equipment from all the others that you can buy at CompUSA or BestBuy. The point is to remember that you got it for cheap and to immediately suspect poor quality of SOHO gear is the root cause for a performance problem.
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"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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