slimkid;251443 Wrote: > Wireless problems aren't usually related to bandwidth, but to the > ability to deliver constant and uninterrupted signal. I have given it > up and switched to wired. Too many hickups due to wirless phones or > microwave ovens. Wireless network probably (miss)behaves the same all > the time, but it's just way more annoying when one hears it or remote > doesn't react. Tried every trick in the book, just to discover that my > router reacts to wireless phone even if there are no wireless devices > attached to it. > > However, when it works, the sound quality is exactly the same. Of > course, in the HiFi world, there will always be good old disclaimer > "...in my system, to my ears..." :) > > K
Yea, some people just have lots of 2.4ghz noise in their area. I have a friend in San Francisco who can barely use his AP more than 5 meters away. I can see atleast 40 other APs in some range of his 7th floor apartment. And that's with concrete/rebar construction that should keep all that RF contained. As for wireless signal, I have occasional dropouts on my SB2 that I keep in my garage. But my SB3 and TP in my house work fine over wireless with FLACs going to both of them while 2 laptops are connected. Wifi is only a problem if you have local RF problems, or off-spec wifi hardware. Like one of the worst things you can have on an 802.11g network is an old 11b windows client that blasts the air at full power any time you turn it on. Wandering off-topic now.. I helped setup a wifi network at an IETF meeting (you know, those nerds that design the internet) a few years ago. We had 50-60 APs connected to a dedicated specialized control point (airspace, now part of cisco) This allowed us to load-balance the 2000+ laptops online at all times during the day. The largest problem we had was the fact that the windows wifi driver stack likes to transmit at full power any time a new AP is found. Compound this with poor quality 11b clients and the network just took a dump. We eventually turned off 11g/b hybrid mode, and went back to 11b only. That cleared up most of the issues, but reduced the bandwidth to wifi. Thankfully we had about 500-700 (I don't remember exactly) gige ports on ethernet switches available in a few large conference rooms. In total we had about 150mbit of internet access (2x DS3, and a long-range wireless link) for all those users. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41365 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
