Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
Thanks again, Pat. you wrote: ...do you have a local repeater from your WiFi ISP? Or does everything go out of your house to the ISP and back. I've never heard of a setup like this, but I would expect problems from such a thing Not sure on this. We're in a rural New England. We receive our Wif

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Pat Farrell
steelhead wrote: > Robin wrote: >> Looks like it is a wireless networking issue. > > Do you think it's with my ISP or our home network? > I'm wondering if the former as we have a wifi ISP. I'm not Robin, but do you have a local repeater from your WiFi ISP? Or does everything go out of your house

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
Robin, You wrote: Looks like it is a wireless networking issue. Do you think it's with my ISP or our home network? I'm wondering if the former as we have a wifi ISP. Thanks again, Phil PS In the meantime, I think I'm going to look into connecting my SB directly to my computer. -- steel

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
steelhead wrote: > I'll have to get another e-net cord to try that. > > Thanks much for all your advice...I suspect I'll post again at > beginning of the week. Looks like it is a wireless networking issue. Hope you get it sorted. R. PS. Note to gdg: Please read how steelhead has responded

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
I'll have to get another e-net cord to try that. Thanks much for all your advice...I suspect I'll post again at beginning of the week. -- steelhead steelhead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Triode
It does look like the issue is with your network, but I assume the server and player are both at your home. In which case although the wireless router may be provided by your ISP it is just the wireless network in your home which has a problem. I suspect your ISP will consider this your issue to

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
showing low buffer fullness - others OK -- steelhead steelhead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36996 __

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
It's dropping off -- bouncing all over. Based on this test, I'm thinking the issue is with our wifi ISP. As previously mentioned, I had not had sustained issues before we lost service earlier this week; issues began after we went back online. At times, signal strength would drop off, but we wou

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Triode
The 100% counter is going up, but the others ones arn't. If you reset and restart the test does it only show 100%. If so this would indicate the network is ok, if not then there is a problem with the network. You can look at the player display while the test is running - is the bar graph consta

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread erland
Choppiness can also be caused by an overloaded computer. I had a similar problem recently and the cause was that some background jobs, that had nothing to do with SlimServer, where overloading the server computer at the time. I have also had a similar problem when my laptop overloaded the wirele

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
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Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
Thanks...hadn't used this before: < 10 : 143 : 14% ## < 20 : 373 : 35% # < 30 : 267 : 25% < 40 : 27 : 3% # < 50 :0 : 0% < 60 :0 : 0% < 70 :0 : 0% < 75 :0 : 0% < 80 :1 : 0% < 85 :0 : 0

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Triode
If you leave that going for a while and refresh the display what does the graph show? [the one you posted only shows one reading] -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thr

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
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Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread bflatmajor
First, I'm not an expert in networking wireless or wired, but I do work with network engineers, so I have resources that I talk to. I used to experience the same issue as you and it's been resolved for over a year now. So here are some of the things I did; Updated wireless router's firmware Ch

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Triode
Please try the steps outlined on the wiki and report back what measurements you get: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DiagnosingPerformanceIssues -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Pat Farrell
steelhead wrote: > Pat - I'm not clear on why this is important. I have not had a problem > w/ starting/accessing slimserver. I'm not sure either, it was Robin who asked. I'm just pointing out that you answered a different question. Sometimes software, applications and operating system interact

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
Pat - I'm not clear on why this is important. I have not had a problem w/ starting/accessing slimserver. -- steelhead steelhead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12450 View this thread: http://for

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Pat Farrell
steelhead wrote: > 1. How are you starting slimserver? > via browser and also tried from Squeezebox. This is how you access slimserver. Not how you start the slimserver process. There are many ways to start the slimserver server software, and usually there are several ways on each OS. I don' sp

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
Thanks, Robin, for the reply. Here are some answers 1. How are you starting slimserver? via browser and also tried from Squeezebox. 2. What model of SB you are using? v3 3. Are you connecting wired or wirelessly? wireless...have connected my SB directly too my router where signal is 100%. Sam

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
steelhead wrote: > I have a new problem with my Squeezebox: all of a sudden, all music > played over slimserver is choppy, I cannot listen to any tracks. I've > had my Squeezebox for just over a month and it had been working fine. > > I get a clear signal with Squeezenetwork. > > I'm on Mac (In

[slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread steelhead
I have a new problem with my Squeezebox: all of a sudden, all music played over slimserver is choppy, I cannot listen to any tracks. I've had my Squeezebox for just over a month and it had been working fine. I get a clear signal with Squeezenetwork. I'm on Mac (Intel) OS X v10.4.10 Slimserver