ChaoticMike wrote: > 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?[/qyote] > > I'm not familiar with Network test on Duet - but if run from controller > - it will be ameasure of controller link. > > Boom Network Test (under Boom Information menu) will tell you at what > bit rate you will lose packets. You need to leave at each rate for about > 2 minuted or so to ensure stability. So if your Boom cannot do 500kbps > at 100% - then it will nto be able to play Flac streams. > > > > 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...)> > > SB players wireless don't support "roaming" so if the player does > change AP - then you'll have problems. > > > > > 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.> > > SB players only use 802.11g which can only deliver up to 54Mbps. > 802.11n has 150Mbs but SB player won't support it and you won't get > that throughput to SB players. Ignore signalling overheads it's small > compared to full data 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? :-)> > > Again you have not provided details on the "extender! - if it's a case > of an extender being a relay - then it will havle bandwidth on each > hop. If multiple extenders are operating on same channel and can see > each other - then you'll get interference. If on the other hand you > have a mesh Wifi (i.e. satellites rather than extenders) with > backbones (links from satellite to router) using a different > channel/frequency - there will be no loss of bandwidth. > > With SB devices - pen and paper usually points out the problems areas. > Measurements would be relevant for newer devices which can roam etc.
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