Siduhe;236070 Wrote: > IMHO, 30% wireless signal strength isn't going to be sufficient for high > bitrate streaming audio. You mention that your laptop was fine with > this - I have tried to explain (probably not very well) that you aren't > necessarily comparing like with like. > > The SB is a slim client - it has no processor and only a limited buffer > - it therefore relies more heavily on maintaining a strong wireless > connection with constant throughput. Your laptop is in a rather > different position and may be more forgiving even though you are asking > it to do the same thing!
Have you ever opened up such a device? These things always have a cpu, a reasonable amount of ram and a few megs of flash memory for storing the firmware. Maybe its not IA-32 but maybe it has at least a mips or an arm cpu.. maybe its a solution on one single chip which doesn't mean that it does not contain the essential parts to run something like an operation system on it. Also you shouldn't rate `audio-streaming' too high. Even a 120 Pentium 1 cpu can decode a 64kbps stream easily on-the-fly -- not to mention an additional hardware decoder which is probably built in into SB. However, thanks for your help Siduhe -- like I said: basically the SB works pretty well. It's just this weird wireless-handling.. -- finger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ finger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39421 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
