Running a SB3 a Dell laptop as a music server.
The laptop is about 5 metres from the SB3 signal strength is 85% or
so.
If I connect the laptop hard wired into the router but leave the SB3
wireless, I get no problems at all.
If I have both the laptop SB3 wireless, the connection will drop
As I see it you have two choices:
1) stream using lossy compression and keep everything wireless
or
2) wire SB3 to Router
Having everything wireless AND streaming uncompressed is too much for
current wireless technology IMHO.
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto
Try an environment scan and look for channel collision with another
wi-fi router on the same/similar channel.
New routers (i.e D-Link DIR-655) are better at keeping wi-fi throughput
going. I tested mine with 802.11n to server and then feeding FLAC to 3
players on 801.11g concurrently without
I used to have the same kind of problem long ago - ended up wiring the
pc that SqueezeCenter was on and have not had the problem since. With
mine when the Squeezebox dropped it was a real pita to reconnect.
Newer routers will allow you to run full uncompressed streaming
wireless as long as you
