JimC;291852 Wrote: > Could it be less tolerant? Sure. It's a different set of electronics > and it's certainly possible that "noise" is rejected as well. Is it > indeed less tolerant? Quite honestly, I don't know. > > Please do swap them over again and let us know what you find.
Thanks, Jim; I was planning to add more anyway... Tonight we tried the players in their swapped locations whilst preparing dinner; all went well until we turned on the microwave, at which point both stopped dead. Not too surprising, I guess. Once we were finished with the m'wave we tried again; it took a couple of false (stuttery) starts, but then worked fine. (The washing machine didn't seem to affect them.) Some time later, I swapped the units over. Within a few tracks, they started stuttering again (well, to be precise, the SB3 played up - I wasn't in a position to check the SBC). The SB3 even showed the "rebuffering..." message, which I rarely see. At this point, since I actually wanted to listen rather than fault-trace, I turned off sync. The SB3 has been working fine since. This experience supports the idea that my SBR may be more touchy than my SB3; but it's far from conclusive. My laptop (in the same room as the SB3) reports no other networks nearby. SqueezeCenter reports signal strengths of 66 (SB3) and 58 (SBC) at the moment, but this is some time after the sync problems. (Just had a weird moment there, where SqueezeCenter was reporting very low signal on the SBC (36 or less), but the Controller said 53; but the SBC was paused, and once I started playing something, SC started to look better.) Those signal strengths aren't very good. I can't blame the central heating, as it's not on. The only things on in the kitchen at the moment are the fluorescent tube (hmm?) and the fridge on which the SBC sits (hmmmm...) I can't rule out the possibility of interference from the neighbours, but it's a bit unlikely at this time of night. Right now, even the laptop is claiming a lower-than-usual speed (36Mbps). Maybe it's time to check out my router; it gets power-cycled each night, but hasn't had a firmware upgrade for a while. I don't suppose there are any known issues with the LinkSys WRT54G router... ? It's all a bit frustrating... I bought the SBC mainly to use in sync with my SB3, but this doesn't seem to be working reliably. I doubt that it's the units themselves, or the server; more likely it's poor signal or too much noise. But I'm running out of options - moving the router, or wiring-up one or both units would not be practical. (I guess I should add that the router is upstairs, and the server is wired to it.) I could try swapping the SB3/SBR round again, but that's not ideal either. -- 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=45679 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
