ozbrit;539599 Wrote: > I have empathy with the OP. It's very easy for squeezebox owners in the > US to be surprised at poor connectivity issues experienced by SB owners > situated in other parts of the world. There are two servers in the US > right! One in Germany, none in Asia, Africa, Australia or S.America!
You have a misconception about how MySB works. If you listen to a stream from "example.com", and are not using a local server, your player will make a total of two connections: one to MySB,com, and one to example.com. The fist connection uses maybe a couple kbps. The connection to example.com will use whatever it needs based on the bitrate of the station. There will also be some packet overhead, but really that's not much at all. So let's assume your theory is right and latency (not speed) to a remote MySB is the issue: if you deliberately slow packets down to MySB, what you will see is NOT buffer shortages, but slow response to commands (ie, you'd change volume and it would be jerky). The stream is still coming from example.com as fast as example.com and intervening networks send it. MySB does NOT connect to example.com, get a stream and then send the stream back to you... that would be insanely expensive and no way could logitech afford to do that. Instead they tell your player to make a direct connection to the remote site and MySB just acts as a controller, without sitting in the middle of the connection. > > I'm down-under and have have no re-buffering when listening to the same > streams on my reciva based wifi Internet Radio's (I have two). But try > them on my Squeezebox classic and they'll re-buffer. To emphasise the > poor connectivity, I can set one of my Internet radio's to play a > 160kbps mp3 stream and it'll stream nicely while the SB is stuck > spluttering and re-buffering. If the stream is ok with reciva then the > bandwidth here has to be adequate. > Bad methodology. If you have limited bandwidth, using MORE of it and then complaining that you no longer have enough to stream is silly. You deliberately deprived your SB of bandwidth and then complain it drops? Why not download some torrents and stream some video while you're at it? The difference you are seeing is most likely because of larger buffer space in your other radios. They are more able to 'ride out' network delays in your stream. There is a solution to this, but you'd have to run your own server: which could then proxy the stream to your player, and have substantially larger buffers than the players allow with their limited RAM. (The problem with this is it makes for longer 'startup' time... if you want 10 seconds of buffering, then when you press 'play' it will have to delay everything for 10 seconds. It can't buffer a stream without delaying it.) > > Yes the Logitech servers are a pain for some of us who have a few hops > to bridge between our SB and the overseas servers. > > Otherwise, I disagree with the OP, its a sleek bit of kit, if only > Logitech would do something about the re-buffering crap we have to > contend with. Having 120 servers in Asia, all on OC192's would do.. nothing for buffering issues. The stream that needs the bandwidth is NOT from MYSB, but from whatever source you are listening to. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77468 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
