[slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-17 Thread FTJoe
I have a weird problem with the last SB V3 I got. First thing I noticed was when my screensaver was on and the text was scrolling, the text would sometimes pause for a few seconds, then "catch up" to where it should have been. I placed it right next to my older SB and the older one didn't have a

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-17 Thread maggior
I've seen similar behavior when I was using Windows XP for my server. The machine was also connected to my network via wireless. Both of my squeezeboxes are wireless. I've also seen this behavior if the signal strength is marginal (< 50%). When using mine on my deck connected to PC speakers (g

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-17 Thread CatBus
I had a similar experience when I briefly had a metal bucket placed between my WAP and my SB3. Moved the bucket and performance was back to normal. My suggestion: test wired, then if wired is okay, look for wireless interference/contention. -- CatBus --

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-18 Thread FTJoe
Okay - router is in the basement so testing a problem that's occurring sporadically will be a pain, but I'll give it a whirl. I am going to try two things... 1) Set up an higher gain antenna on my router to boost the signal, though not sure and communications back to the server will be increased

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-19 Thread MeridianMan
I have had the same thing occur with one of my SB3's (altho honestly, the other one doesn't get used as much, so it's possible it could have the same problem). Am running SS 6.5 on XP machine and both of my units are hardwired Cat 5e. -- MeridianMan

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-21 Thread lyteroptes
Mine started this behaviour recently - yesterday it was really bad so I forced a firmware update. It was fine after that but too soon to be sure it was the fix. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Squeezebox sometimes lagging on commands

2007-09-21 Thread dcote
hi guys! i had (sometimes still have) this problem too. in my case it turned out to be a severely resource-starved computer running slimserver. especially if it had to start swapping virtual memory to- and from disk, i could sometimes wait for 20-30 sec.(!) for it to respond to the remote control