'Ur[s Wrote: > uS;191660'] > Recommendation #1. Hard-wire the NAS to your router, otherwise too > much wireless activity bouncing from SB3 to NAS/server and back again. >
You mean that *if* you use a NAS device to hold the files and a separate computer to run Slimserver, situate the NAS so it has a 100% wired connection to the PC, right? My Slimserver host sits on a wireless bridge (802.11g "router" running DD-WRT in "client bridge" mode) and all my Squeezeboxes run wireless -- so whenever I play my own music, the data for each Squeezebox goes wireless twice, once from Slimserver's DD-WRT bridge to the real wireless Access Point, and again from the real AP to the Squeezebox. It works fine. Almost all my music is moderate to high bitrate MP3, but I've also played uncompressed WAV/PCM on this double-hop setup with no problems. Actually, being able to play uncompressed WAV on a double-hop setup suggests that FLAC would surely be OK even on a 4-hop (NAS -> AP -> Slimserver -> AP -> Squeezebox) setup. Wired is theoretically better in many ways, but for music wireless is usually perfectly adequate, even in "sub-optimal" multi-hop setups. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34060 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
