My experience, in case it is useful: Running 7.3.2 on Linux server, wired to Zoom X6 gateway router (firmware 2.1.5 from 2007), wireless G to SB3, streaming flac and internet radio. After installing 7.3.2 back in March, things worked pretty well for a couple of months and then gradually degraded to the point of near unusability, with frequent 'rebufferings' and 'cannot connect'. I wondered whether new software had been pushed to player without notification. A wireless laptop running Vista sitting close to the SB3 kept working fine with long downloads from internet or hours-long back ups and maintenance of music library on the remote server.
Most frustrating was internet radio - player would connect for maybe a minute or two and then stop, sometimes reconnecting after another minute or two, but more often just 'cannot connect' - player would freeze and be unable to change to music library or scroll through radio stations. Direct radio streaming from internet to a computer worked OK, so it wasn't just that the radio station was kicking out the connection. When the SB3 wouldn't connect and offered the option to try again or go left, re-attempting the connection still would not connect at all for long enough to get sound out of the player, even after multiple tries, yet the nearby laptop kept connecting without problem. Just the other day I purchased a new router, Linksys WRT160N, and am running it in wireless-G mode. All my 'cannot connect' and 'rebufferings' seem to have vanished, the Squeezebox is working great again. So I evidently had network problems that were causing my difficulty. I don't think the problem was wireless signal strength, since the laptop near the SB3 connected fine, and with the new router, the strength in the SB3 player is still only 45% or so. So I wonder whether perhaps older routers don't handle the streaming or hand-shaking as well for some reason. Or that the error-handling in the SB3 was not very robust and when radio station got lost or the connection broke for whatever reason, the player couldn't recover properly. Anyway, I wonder whether Logitech couldn't do something to improve the robustness of the SB3 performance, even on suboptimal networks. I remember back in the 90's when the Sun computer company (big unix installations) suddenly realized it was not enough just to list the requirements of a proper operating environment, but that their customers simply weren't able to establish or maintain those by themselves. The company CEO wrote that it was like a revelation, and that it became part of the company's job to help them maintain those. Logitech obviously can't maintain home networks for people, but perhaps they could provide a suite of tools or other robust evaluation procedures to pinpoint where the network problems are. Anyway, I am glad my Squeezebox is working reliably again, and I apologize to it for all those bad thoughts I had about it being a piece of crap. Swimmer -- Swimmerbird123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swimmerbird123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65719 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
