I think the OP said his home internet connection was "4Mbit/300K". I take that to mean 4Mb inward and 300Kbps outward, which should be plenty for FLAC.
However, I really think this is indeed a problem at the ISP level. I've been doing performance monitoring on the cable modem at my home and I find that midnight to 7AM are indeed the best times for download speeds. Here's a graph of the performance of my "10Mbit/1Mbit" service: http://brainflux.net/~mark/netspeed-old.png (I switched to "3Mb" DSL on February 13) note that the advertised 10Mbit download speed dipped below 1Mbit nightly during peak usage hours and while it occasionally flirted with 9Mb, it never delivered 10Mb. (they've since made improvements, after much complaining on my part). OpenVPN isn't going to provide any fix here, and I suspect the file format per se isn't the issue, it's just one of available bandwidth. I think that Ogg is performing similarly to FLAC because it's being transcoded to FLAC on the server end. If using the work VPN really solves the problem, then I'd further suspect ISP traffic shaping (ugh!) One thing to try would be to use SSH to tunnel the slimserver ports (TCP 3483 and 9000) and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then I'd definitely think ISP-side traffic shaping is contributing to the problem during those non-morning hours. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
