On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:18:58 -0500, "Ben Sandee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 4/19/06, patrija > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I have 2 SB2s connecting to Slimserver running on a Dell Server and a > > Nokia 770 as a remote. Music is AAC and managed with playlists via > > iTunes. Internet is Comcast cable on a 6MB line (usually) with modem > > connected to a Belkin Pre-N wireless router. Works fine. > > > > Recently bought a lake house about 1.5 hours away. Installed 384k DSL > > there. I have an old SB1 sitting in a drawer. Is it possible (and > > realistic sound quality) to hook it up at the lake house and stream > > music from home? My current and fall back solution to get the same > > music and playlists is an iPOD and DLO HomeDock. > > It's *possible* but there are a few issues. > > First, because you're using AAC SlimServer will need to either stream > uncompressed or transcode to MP3. Depending on how important sound > quality > is to you, transcoding might be an issue. Uncompressed would likely not > work at all because it's simply too much data to stream reliably over > those > connections. > > Second the SB1 has a relatively small buffer -- although for MP3 it > should > be plenty large to handle the unpredictable latency of your connection. > You > might get better results with the SB2 at the lake.
That would probably be best. > Finally, the last issue would be security. You would probably want to > investigate some sort of VPN solution between the two networks because > SlimServer really isn't designed to be left open to the internet. There > have been numerous threads about this. VPN is overkill and adds to the latency and complexity. A simple IP address filter in your router or firewall should be just as effective. I believe even slimserver has a way to restrict access to certain ip addresses. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
