But the lights will blink if a single packet is sent. And there will be tens of thousands of contacts per day as each clock is updated every second.
You've done all these tests but you omitted one important thing: what's the *volume* of traffic being sent? It's quite small. I have two Squeezeboxes, both with clock screensavers. Total inbound traffic: 180 bytes/sec Total outbound traffic: 204 bytes/sec And when I turn one of the Squeezeboxes off, it's 120 in/136 out. With 4 Squeezeboxes these numbers would double, but you'd still be well under 1 KB/s in/out combined. I fail to see how this could possibly impact network performance. You must have other issues. If all 4 are streaming WAV at 1440 KB/s, with extra bandwidth requirements for control pushing each stream to say 1600 KB/s for a total of 6400 KB/s, that's not inconsequential but it could easily be handled by a gigabit network with plenty of room to spare for Internet and file transfer activity. Average consumer gigabit equipment can only actually achieve 200 Mbps or so = 25 600 KB/s. With 4 Squeezeboxes streaming WAV, you're still only at 25% capacity. With 4 clock screensavers consuming say 1 KB/s, you're several orders of magnitude under 1%. You have gigabit networking capable of a useable 200 Mbps. Most of us are using wireless networking capable of 10-20 Mbps without issues. Again, I fail to see what the problem is or how the clock screensavers could possibly be causing network issues. 1 KB/s of 25 600 KB/s is 0.00390625%. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: traffic.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1177| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22789 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
