Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
Mark Lanctot wrote: > peter;363991 Wrote: > >> I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit. >> > > This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all > that bandwidth? > One, not much. But several at the same time... Or an audio player sharing its bandwidth with one or more laptops... Or a user who wants to run SC on a wirelessly connected PC so that each FLAC stream is transmitted twice... > >> Also my upstairs controller seems to have a slightly better connection. >> > > Good, but this isn't due to the controller's wireless card, which is > still 802.11g. > No contest. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
peter;363991 Wrote: > I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit. This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all that bandwidth? > Also my upstairs controller seems to have a slightly better connection. Good, but this isn't due to the controller's wireless card, which is still 802.11g. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
Mark Lanctot wrote: > DeVerm;362391 Wrote: > >> The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on >> the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. >> > > OK, that's a good one, but a lot of people want 'n' just because it's > the latest and greatest. > I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit. Also my upstairs controller seems to have a slightly better connection. > n's increased bandwidth isn't useful on the player side because the > maximum a player will need is 4608 kbps (24/96 WAV) - almost do-able > with 802.11b and easy with most 802.11g networks. > > There's increased range and bandwidth at longer distances, but it's my > understanding that this is mostly due to MIMO on the router/AP. > > Also, can't anyone wait until 802.11n is officially released? This is > still really all draft-n. If you would need a new router right now because your old one broke. Would you buy a G? Or a G that also does N, draft perhaps but has a pretty good chance of being upgradable? Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
DeVerm;362391 Wrote: > The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on > the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. OK, that's a good one, but a lot of people want 'n' just because it's the latest and greatest. n's increased bandwidth isn't useful on the player side because the maximum a player will need is 4608 kbps (24/96 WAV) - almost do-able with 802.11b and easy with most 802.11g networks. There's increased range and bandwidth at longer distances, but it's my understanding that this is mostly due to MIMO on the router/AP. Also, can't anyone wait until 802.11n is officially released? This is still really all draft-n. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
DIR-655 has also worked great for me, though I did replace one of the 3 antennas with a directional unit due to long distance and many walls. That actually is one of the nice things about the DLink units, that it is easy to replace their low gain omnidirectional antennas. Our access point sits at one corner of the house (downstairs), so it is extremely suboptimal to use omnidirectional antennas (we have a number of directional antennas now, which have led to much better performance). -- ncarver ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
Mark Lanctot;362219 Wrote: > Why? The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. When one disables support for 11 Mbps "b" devices on the router it shouldn't be an issue until you get a lot of SB's playing at the same time. One can always install a seperate (older?) router for SB on a different channel or, even better, go to the 5GHz band for the other users, using a dual-band/dual-radio router. cheers, Nick. -- DeVerm DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
mikel51;362153 Wrote: > now if only our squeezeboxes could be upgraded to wireless-N. Why? (extra text to avoid overly short post) -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
I'm also a happy DIR655 usersigh, now if only our squeezeboxes could be upgraded to wireless-N. -- mikel51 mikel51's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16688 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
+1 DIR-655 has worked 100% with Duet, Controller and SB3 for me as well -- petemac petemac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18630 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
coma wrote: > Do those of you using either the D-Link DIR-655 or the Airport Extreme > have problems with your connection to the Duet Controller? And for > those of you that have a Duet and one of those two routers and no > problems please chime in as well. > DIR-655 has worked flawlessly here. Previous Airport Express needed to be rebooted every couple of weeks and died after some years. No experience with the Extreme. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
+1 DIR-655 has worked 100% with Boom, Duet, Controller, SB3 and Transporter -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
I don't have a duet, but the DIR655 has performed flawlessly for me.
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[slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?
I'm running SqueezeCenter on a Mac Mini (as well as on a new MacBook Pro) and I've noticed that my Duet Controller seems to lose connection to my network. My current router is a tiny Linksys Compact WRT54GC and although this isn't the case, I feel that if I opened it up I'd find a bent paperclip inside for the antenna. My question for the users out there is this: Do those of you using either the D-Link DIR-655 or the Airport Extreme have problems with your connection to the Duet Controller? And for those of you that have a Duet and one of those two routers and no problems please chime in as well. -- coma coma's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
