A word of warning: Had a dreadful experience with the Linksys WRT110 Wireless Router.
I had been using SBv3 (firmware 88), Squeezecenter 7.0.1 on Ubuntu (various versions as they came out, but now at 8.04), and a Netgear WGR614 for about a year with no wireless connectivity problems despite upgrading Squeezecenter, SB firmware, and Ubuntu whenever new versions were available. I decided to "upgrade" my router due to a few patchy areas in the house for my laptop reception, gave the Netgear to a friend, and got the Linksys WRT110. I upgraded the WRT110 to the latest firmware available on the Linksys site and had no problems with router setup. However, as soon as I connected Squeezebox wirelessly to the WRT110, I had nothing but buffering problems. It sometimes took 30 seconds for an mp3 to start playing and rebuffering dropouts happened frequently. The "Network Test" plugin on the Squeezebox showed that as soon as I got above 320 kbps, I was getting significant drops below 100% and it only got worse above that. Flac was out of the question - completely unplayable. I had never had any buffering delay with flac or mp3 files with my previous (older) Netgear router. I played around with the WRT110 wireless settings (fragmentation, CTS, frame burst, different channels, etc.) with no luck. The wireless signal strength was always in the 60-70 range. There didn't seem to be any obvious explanation for the buffering problems and I didn't have the desire to run Wireshark traces and try to debug Linksys' router problems. I gave up on the Linksys WRT110, returned it to the store, and bought a Netgear WPN824v3. This Netgear router is working like a charm with SB and Squeezecenter, just like the previous Netgear I had. No buffering delay at all when I start playing and the Network test shows no drops from 100% until I get into the 4000-5000 kbps range (and not significant drops even there). Not sure if I got a dud Linksys, but wanted to put this out there for anyone considering the WRT110. You may be in for a rude awakening with this router. -- grantmasterflash ------------------------------------------------------------------------ grantmasterflash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15407 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49003 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
