Today's trials... It started badly: network test on the SB3 couldn't get 100% even on 320kbps. At one point, the SB3 turned off, and wouldn't connect to the network again until I power-cycled (at which point it connected straight away).
I updated my router firmware (it was *very* old!) Things seemed better after that. So I queued up a list of mp3s (largely at 128kbps), and that seemed to go OK for a couple of hours. Then I braved some flacs: no-no, couldn't even play for a few seconds before stuttering. Gave in and introduced bitrate limiting, and had to go down to 192kbps before it stopped stuttering; even then, it would stutter occasionally, but always recovered by itself. Things seemed better later in the evening; I noticed that signal strength was creeping into the 70s. So I queued up some flacs and turned off bitrate limiting. That seemed to work for a while, but after about 45 minutes, and a few seconds after I'd been watching the stats climbing, the SB3 suddenly stopped and went blank. No stuttering, no warning. NetStumbler on the laptop reported an SNR in the low 50s, but the SB3 has been able to work in those circumstances before. I waited about 10 minutes to see if it would come back on by itself (as has happened occasionally), but gave in and turned it on. It went straight to "Waking up SlimServer..." (so had no trouble connecting to the network). We're back at the start of the playlist, and I think it's been reshuffled. Well, so much for updating the router firmware. That I couldn't play flac at all earlier in the day seems to suggest that there's some kind of interference, though I don't think it's anything we're running. But I suspect that the SB3 turning itself off is something else. And just as I wrote that, the display went blank again. Music's still playing, but probably not for long. NetStumbler looks "interesting": the entry under my SSID is grey, but there's another on the same channel, no SSID, MAC 000000, WEP encryption on, with the same SNR as my SSID had a few seconds ago; and my laptop seems to think it's connected to a network called "Access Point". What on earth is going on? I'd assumed that this was something to do with how NetStumbler changes settings on the laptop (my web browsers can't resolve URLs when NetStumbler is running), but I'm not so sure now. Something funny with my network, for sure... -- 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
