cyprusgrump;630625 Wrote: 
> I've had a continuing dialogue with the tech support people...
> 
> They are going to send me a 7.6 beta which they think will solve it...
> I will keep you posted...

Please do let me know if that works.

I had two problems as outlined in the thread above.  The first one was
relating to the Squeezebox Server dropping the SBR connection and the
current playlist being out of sync what is actually playing.    This
seems to be resolved by downgrading to 7.5.1.

The 2nd problem of poor wifi performance: a combination of poor RF
performance of the SBR (as compared to its SB3 cousins) -- and my
relatively noisy WiFi environment.     

I purchased a TP-Link AP/Bridge:

1) Used as a bridge.....I got my single strength up significantly
...and things are 98% good. Proving again, the SBR wifi is..well
suboptimal.    But with 3 Squeezeboxes and numerous other devices (PCs,
phones, iPADs) on the same frequency ...there were times where
congestion was starting to hurt the SBR.

2) I converted the TP-Link to AP mode...and setup another SSID
(802.11n) in a non-overlapping extreme end of the frequency choices
(which happened to be the cleanest channel anyways).     Extremely
surprisingly, the SBR consistently continued to drop connections --
once every 3 or 4 hours.    Then I remembered what another post
discussed, as implausible as it may seem.... to set the AP to 802.11g
mode only -- as the SBR has issues with "n".   I always understood this
to be backward compatible....but I tried it knowing the many surprises
the SBR has had for me so far.      So far....running a 802.11g AP
keeps the SBR holding on ...so far for 48 hours.    So this seems to
work.   Time will tell.   Regardless...I am not happy with the radio
performance or overall quality of the Squeezebox Server/SBR
integration.    But when it is working... it is nice...just not with
the time and $$ I have invested.


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jt25741

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