bpa wrote: > Have you tried the Network Test facility of the Boom ?
No, but only because the network test of the Duet Receivers has never seemd very reliable/usable/easy to interpret. Is it better on the Boom? bpa wrote: > It's a bit worrying you don't know the topology of your own network. It's not so much that I don't know the topology of my network; more that devices seem to happily associate themselves with not necessarily the strongest or nearest network segment. Particularly if a device like an extender (or the main router) reboots or is down for a few minutes: devices associate themselves with a different segment. The control console for the Virgin router/hub isn't brilliant - sometimes it just doesn't show things that I can *see* are online, and things that are wirelessly connected to WiFi extenders are classed as being on a wired interface from the point of view of the Virgin hub, presumably because the extenders *are* wired, sort of. (Virgin Router->Cat5->wall connected master extender->household wiring->slave extender->WiFi->Connected Device. Looking at that, its a wonder anything works...) bpa wrote: > LMS does does not multicast even when players are synced. LMS sends an > exact copy of each packet (in the lowest common format so if Boom is > synced with Joggler - it will be Flac transcoded stream) to each player. > So if each player is getting Flac - then your network has to be able to > support 700kbps per player. When players are synced - then the packets > are sent at the same time so big bursts of data which will stress a > network. If your wireless extenders are the sort that halve bandwidth > and similarly with Powerline with a shared medium - all these weakpoints > will be shown up by playing synced Flac streams. This might be something to delve into. Although the Wireless LAN is *supposed* to give 155Mbps, I am very aware that represents a total bandwidth, that needs to accommodate signalling protocols as well as usable packets. Even so, if it was being halved by extenders, or quartered because there are 2 (would that happen? I'm not daisy chaining extenders), that *ought* to give a fair chunk of usable low latency bandwidth. Can you recommend a good Windoze or Android network analysis tool? :-) Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChaoticMike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17281 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
