G to N may move some of the data traffic out of the way, but the SB3 is stuck at G (unless you get yet another N router and set it up as a client bridge...). As others have mentioned, you're actually doing two hops over wireless just to play music, doubling the music traffic. G to N may improve things, but I'm dubious it would make things completely fixed.
Two routers with two non-overlapping channels is definitely doable, and you'd need a wireless dongle for you laptop to support it. Dual-homing is what it's called when you set up a single machine for two networks. But I'm of the opinion that the ultimate problem is that, the way your network is currently designed, your laptop is a major choke point. You're already asking it to do too much, and I'm not sure creating a whole new network topology is a good idea if your laptop is still the chokepoint in that new setup. Instead of looking at wireless access points, look at NAS devices that support Squeezebox Server. You can offload the work onto that, wire that to your network so there's only one wireless hop, and you'll be much happier. Just double-check that your music format is playing back natively and isn't transcoded (NAS devices don't have much CPU power to transcode). Or even skip the NAS device and get a real low-end PC to act as a server--there's no limits then. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80802 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
