Phil Leigh;630166 Wrote: > Thanks - I looked back through the posts but missed that! > > Wonder what PasTim means by less than ideal?
I did mention I have a wired network, back in post 600, but there's a lot of stuff to plough through to find it. How do people suggest I should test my network? I'm willing to if I have some tools that tell me what's going on. I've not detected problems on data (big files exchanged between PCs and so on with my 100Mbit network running at 50% and more), but of course errors on such transfers can be recovered without one noticing anything much. The network is less than ideal because I am running through 3 switches. One close to the Touch (and connected to other media streaming devices which are not in use when testing), one on my ADSL router near the telephone for broadband, and one in my study at the other end of the house where my music files are stored, plus printer etc. It isn't always possible to engineer a network and house to fit the ideal, especially when I have to consider my better half using the network as well. Given there's an alternative, i.e. flac, which has seemingly perfect stability, and the benefit in sound quality is not certain (for me anyway), there's a limit to how much work one will do to get to the ideal. Having seen my network loaded and 8% overall using flac whilst doing other things as well, and not having any problems, I suspect the Touch is the culprit, but there's no way I can prove that. And finally, I should confirm I only have problems at 24/96, and it's often worst when I change tracks. -- PasTim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
