Jack Coates;168445 Wrote: > It's almost as if some streams come from farther across the Internet > than others, and have more network hops... nah, that's crazy talk. > Never mind.
i live 40minutes from the source of the stream. yet other streams (and all other streams are farther away from me than 40min), did work. yes, i know geography isn't equal to net distance, but still, i don't think the PSU.edu traffic goes to china b4 it gets to me 40min away. Jack Coates;168445 Wrote: > > > and the other side of the coin is that all too often people will > keep > > harping on the wireless angle b/c they either believe thats it 99% > of > > the time, or b/c they love SD so much they don't want to admit it > might > > have a problem. > > I've had SD firmware problems, and I'm certainly willing to believe > that they exist. It was over 3 years ago and I think there's only been > one similar problem since then. That said, wireless problems are a lot > more common. You say nothing has changed, and I'm sure nothing has > changed within your house. Do you live out of range of other equipment > in the 900 MHz and/or 2.4 GHz range though? Maybe your neighbor bought > a microwave. You've said things got better recently... maybe your > neighbor didn't like it and returned it. I'm just trying to point out > that it's really easy to say "I KNOW it's not my problem", but it's a > little harder to be sure that it's not your problem. > > I got to spend this morning in my crawlspace after my server/router > decided to barf when the outside temperature dropped to freezing; > turns out that the server's NICs are failing, and the symptoms are > certainly comparable to yours; jiggling the wires puts it all back to > rights for now, but who knows. I've never had good Internet radio or > VoIP or Webex performance, but I've written it off as ISP trouble > until recently. Now, if I only look at one problem in isolation, is it > the failing NICs, or is it some Linux kernel bug, or is it Slim > Devices firmware? Kinda hard to say until the whole thing fails, > right? sorry, but what exactly is your point? that we can't be certain its SD so we shouldn't focus on it and focus on everything else instead? at the time i was having the problem, i STILL had ruled out all other possibilities within reason. LOCAL 256kbps mp3s worked, SOME other net streams worked, but some didn't. does the wireless care which stream i listen to??? the OP btw, is NOT wireless, yet his problems sound EXACTLY like what i had. and how close would a microwave need to be? and would they have it on 24/7? what i am saying is i had ruled out everything i can think of on my end thats reasonable to rule out. what is left as the most likely culprit is SD/SB/SS. now, just b/c i can't tell you it isn't my neighbors nuclear powered microwave with the certainty of god, doesn't mean, or imo, SHOULDN'T mean that we can't put the focus where it belongs, on the SD product. this is the reasonable most likely possibility at this point, unless u can explain why you think it should be something else, given the results as i described, (meaning some other streams worked, or the local stuff worked wirelessly). -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.1 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
