I just want to thank the slimdevices team for the new duet product. It
seems this is pretty much what I had asked for in this forum section.
I can now place the amp in a remote location and with multiple
controls, it can be manuipulated from anywhere in the house.
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Kane
What do you think?
We're all assuming that Logitech will use the Jive platform to knock-up
a Harmony-based remote with album art etc. to feature match Sonos. I
assume this would be used to control SB3 and won't be
marketing-engineered to only work with the mooted SB4 and Transporter.
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SuperQ;209717 Wrote:
there are a few really REALLY low-end gige hubs out there
I'm not real good with networking so I could be wrong about all this,
but I really don't think they exist. I would be very interested to see
such a beast if you can provide a link to one. Switching technology was
dwilliams01;209695 Wrote:
It had security options that my old G hub didn't support. My laptop with
built-in b didn't support it either.
You're most likely talking about WPA - which 802.11b never supported.
802.11g has supported it from the beginning, but not all 802.11g
chipsets supported
Been away for a few days - sorry for the delay in responding.
It was a few years ago when Belkin first came out with mimo-style
pre-n, not the current draft n. It had security options that my old
G hub didn't support. My laptop with built-in b didn't support it
either. They probalby do now,
seanadams;209471 Wrote:
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. You may be thinking of a hub, which
for practical purposes don't exist any more, and have never existed at
all as far as gigabit ethernet is concerned.
To be fair, there are a few really REALLY low-end gige hubs out there,
The reason to get the speed up to modern standards is two fold, The
first is general network speed. Once you have either a mixed wireless
network, or with many wired switches/routers, the entire network takes
perfomance a hit.
The second, as mentioned is security within the network.
The third
Kane;209425 Wrote:
With video streams and large files bouncing around the house it makes
sense to bring everything up to speed when adding new equipment.
No it doesn't... switches operate each port separately at whatever
speed the endpoint uses. There is absolutely zero slowdown to the
Kane;209425 Wrote:
Once you have either a mixed wireless network, or with many wired
switches/routers, the entire network takes perfomance a hit.
This was the case with 802.11b and 802.11g, but has this been shown to
be the case with 802.11n and 802.11g? I don't believe it has. If I am
seanadams;209428 Wrote:
No it doesn't... switches operate each port separately
Yes but simple router's don't. In any case, the wireless portion is
more important as using a mixed wireless network ABSOLUTELY slows down
the nodes
Of course the main point my brining this up is the idea of a
Kane;209459 Wrote:
Yes but simple router's don't.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. You may be thinking of a hub, which
for practical purposes don't exist any more, and have never existed at
all as far as gigabit ethernet is concerned.
In any case, the wireless portion is more important
I absolutely admit you are correct when it comes to wired switches (and
your right, it was hubs that I was thinking about). OK, let's keep
the unit at 10 Mps for the wired eithernet.
As far as the problem mixing wireless a/b/g/n numerous people are
having problems with wireless networks
Kane wrote:
As far as the problem mixing wireless a/b/g/n numerous people are
having problems with wireless networks (mostly with streaming video)
And how is streaming video, which takes megabytes per second, related to
streaming audio, which takes no more than 1.5 mega bits per second even
Pat Farrell;209481 Wrote:
Kane wrote:
As far as the problem mixing wireless a/b/g/n numerous people are
having problems with wireless networks (mostly with streaming video)
And how is streaming video, which takes megabytes per second, related
to
streaming audio, ...
It you have
Kane wrote:
If it's not economically feasible to break out the D/A converter and
decoder processors, then this isn't a viable idea.
Well, I don't work for SD or Logitech, I just buy their stuff.
But the economics of consumer electronics are completely against you.
Recently SD stopped offering
Kane;209500 Wrote:
It you have multiple, constant video files streaming about (along with
other traffic such as these smaller audio streams), then entire network
is slower if you don't have pure n wireless network. My wireless
network is VERY busy. It all depends on how much you really use
Mark Lanctot;209509 Wrote:
it has been asked before but it didn't amount to much - your best bet is
an SB3 and the ShadowPlay plugin
Then that's the end of this thread.
Mark Lanctot;209509 Wrote:
That's because you keep making stuff up!
By pure n all I meant was that all the devices
Kane;209517 Wrote:
A reference was already posted above. You can do more research if you
want, or not.
I would love to. However, MacWorld isn't exactly an authoritative
expert on the subject, and the article you referenced only makes
passing mention of the supposed phenomenon. I googled for
I am putting together a couple of new speaker setups, with their amp in
another room, far from the listening area. The remote amp will be fed
via a squeezebox, but since this is far from the human eye, what I
really need is a new product:
A combination of a headless SLIMP3/SB/Transporter player
Why do you need gigabit and 802.11n? Even a 24/96 WAV is only 4608 kbps
- it can be handled by lowly 802.11b.
Gigabit is massive overkill. 802.11n is as well although it offers
some throughput vs. distance benefits, which can be matched with
802.11g MIMO.
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Mark Lanctot
'Sean Adams'
Hi
Gigabit might be overkill if it is just for the one SB - but we don't
know what else might be on the network.
I have just wired my house with gigabit - namely because I have 3 SB3's
all potentially streaming FLAC, plus a streamed video library (with ever
increasing HD content!) and I move
DrNic;209300 Wrote:
Gigabit might be overkill if it is just for the one SB - but we don't
know what else might be on the network.
Sure, but gigabit at the server and router. The client (SB) doesn't
need to be gigabit since it can only receive one stream at a time.
Perhaps if you were using
From a speed point of view, 11n might not be needed but from a
compatibility point of view it is. At least I setup my pre-n network
to use security not available in b or g so they aren't compatible. I
wouldn't want to add another wireless hub with a lower level of
security and it would be a
dwilliams01;209344 Wrote:
At least I setup my pre-n network to use security not available in b
or g so they aren't compatible. I wouldn't want to add another
wireless hub with a lower level of security and it would be a pain to
create stuff like an untrusted subnet, etc.
What security is
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