Brian Ritchie;172097 Wrote: > Tonight, it got as far as the Infernal Dance in the Firebird Suite > before barfing. I found that even the 1000kbps network test was > hitting significant dropouts (average 96%, but got much lower on > occasion and even cut off completely at one point). > I switched to channel 6, and twiddled with the router aerials (one > vertical, one horizontal). Signal strength on the SB3 went up to 60-70, > and it's been fine ever since (touch Formica), all the way from Bach to > Ossian (though the latter, I'm shocked to discover, is still largely > 96kb wma... and the sources are on loan to folky friends at the > moment.) Maybe a little early to be popping the champagne corks (but > hey, it's Friday!) > > This evening, NetStumbler showed a plethora of nearby networks on > channels 1, 6 and 11, which pretty much covers the lot, I guess; but > all were intermittent, and none got an SNR above the low 20s. Mine, and > what appears to be its b*stard sibling (or doppelganger) 000000 were > hitting 73. > > Incidentally, whilst serving WMA, Network Health is reporting that > streaming is Inactive, and Buffer Fullness shows *nothing at all*. > Maybe the files are just too small to show up! :-) Right now, I'm > hearing glitches that are almost certainly ripping errors (heavens > knows what I used originally), so these are ripe for a flacking... Of > course, if I'm more or less happy listening to 96kbps wma, why am I > worrying about problems with FLAC delivery?! But resorting to bitrate > limiting would've smelt of failure.
Sounds like some progress then. Since there are so many networks in your area, one could assume you live in a densely populated area - possibly lots of cordless phones and microwave ovens... Inactive streaming is normal, once the rest of the song is in the buffer it stops streaming. However it should show something in the buffer though. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31330 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
