Martin, I have 4 of these wonderful devices and they work great in the UK for streaming 192kps mp3 to a mix of SB2s & SB3s for the last few months. (I missed delivery of 3 more today.) I will shut down my wireless system as being too flacky to survive in real world conditions when these show up. Several friends have 2-3 of these without problems. None of us are near your bandwidth though and we don't use FLAC.
As a workaround, try to bandwidth limit your network using the Player Setting BITRATE LIMITING. Your music should play fine while you debug the situation. That will take the pressure off, because it sounds really good. You can use the bitrate to determine where the network breaks down too. I'd recommend temporarily moving the SB3/Devolo system to the next plug over from the one connected to the Router's Devolo. If it won't work there using FLAC, then re-check your calculations on FLAC bandwidth. If it works fine there, try other plugs and see what your sensitivity is to the uncontrolled house wiring situation. (If you are in the US, moving it close eliminates a L1-L2 problem.) If it does not work there, at least you are close to the computer and can debug everything without getting up! If you are on Windows, you can check the Networking bandwith on the task manager and see if it matches your calculations. Likewise you can look at how it loads your SB3. One sharp peak is good. If it trails out for many, many seconds, it is struggling to keep up. That tab will also tell you about your bandwidth card. You need a 100BaseT to keep up with the Devolo. 10BaseT "might" work, but is the limiting factor. For reference, my six units load up at about 2.7% of a 1Gbs for about 6 seconds across a combination of wired, wireless and Devolo units. The Wireless units stretch this out to another 30 seconds at 0.3%. You could turn on the buffer full option display on the SB3 for more information. (I think it is a plugin and a screensaver option.) All that will do is prove the SB3 is starving for data I expect. While interesting, it served only to confirm that the problem I was having was wireless data starvation. You also do not say what processor you are running. Look at the CPU load and if it is more than a few % to Slim.exe steady state, you may have a different problem. If that occurs, download the latest 6.2.2 beta and see if that helps. That is what I run. Anyway all the best and enjoy the journey! Dennis -- dennisd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dennisd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4945 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22903 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
