Peter;167608 Wrote: > I don't lose much sleep over things that occur so rarely. AFAIC the WAP > > just had a moment of weakness after years of reliable service. I find > the SB3's wifi pretty good. I suppose I shouldn't either; but I've now had the connection fail at least once a day ever since. It happened when we had friends round; I was in the middle of some intricate cookery and couldn't do anything about it for a while. They suggested we put a CD on instead - oh the shame! So this is beginning to get annoying.
(At least, if I don't touch SlimServer, when the SB3 returns it doesn't lose its place in the playlist.) Right now, for example, it had just been playing OK for about an hour, when suddenly it started to stutter. I'm now in the habit of turning on monitoring whenever I use the web interface, and so I was able to bring up the Network Health pages pretty quickly - and they gave everything a clean bill of health. Even refreshing the player stats page claimed that the buffer level was still high. Something, somewhere is telling porkies, methinks... Then the display went black, and a few seconds later the audio stopped completely. Network Health said that the control connection had failed, but everything else was OK. During all of this, my laptop was having no trouble at all, and reporting signal strength as Excellent (albeit at 36Mbps rather than 54 for some of the time). All attempts to turn the SB3 back on failed: it would say "Connecting to the wireless network..." then go off again. Eventually, I power-cycled the SB3. After the usual round of "Waking... Connecting..." iterations (and why DO I need to press the power button when it gets to Connecting... but doesn't?), it finally came back, and seems to be OK again. One change I made a few days ago (after a particularly annoying flurry of failures) was to switch the wireless router from channel 11 to 13; for a while I thought that'd cracked it; but no. (I'll have to change channel again tomorrow, for I need to work from home, but my stupid work laptop's internal card is triskadecaphobic.) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31330 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
