xyzzy01;482603 Wrote: > I've just bought a new Squeezebox radio. So far, not very happy it as it > seems to be a pretty bad performer with my wireless network. > > I live in an apartment, with lots of wireless networks around me. My > network is dual band 802.11n (apple airport extreme) - this allows other > devices to work flawlessly. Unfortunately slimdevices saved a buck or > two by not supporting 802.11n (speed, range and 5 GHz) > > The squeezebox is in my bedroom next to the room with the AP, just 6-7 > meters away from the AP. I'm mostly playing Apple Lossless from an iMac > running SC 7.4.1. Until I tweaked the channels used on the 2.4 GHz > network, there was constant stuttering (many times a minute) - now there > is stuttering on average every 10 minutes or so. Looking at the network > test on the squeezebox, the bandwidth is maxed most of the time (I > tested at 2000 kbps) - but there are periods of a couple of seconds with > 0 bandwidth. Interference, maybe. > > Is there a way to increase buffering on the squeezebox radio, to avoid > problems caused by its inferior wireless networking? Or other ways to > tweak it? Wires and moving AP are not possible - and the squeezebox > radio has to be where it is, as it will replace my bedside radio alarm.
If there are that many b/g access points around you, I'll bet some of them are increasing the interference by setting themselves to channels other than 1, 6, 12 -- the only non-overlapping channels in the 2.4Ghz unregulated band. Suggest you tell the Apple access point (through it's really stupid, non-browser client) to broadcast on channel 1 in the hope that your SB Radio will connect first to it instead of drifting between channels on overlapping ap's. Alternatively, if you do a site survey and most of the aps' are on low channels, you can set your to 12. -- yobyot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yobyot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71064 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
