Great post Tim!!! Rebuffering on my SB3 has been driving me potty too. FLAC over my internal network was faultless but streaming radio was a complete no-no so it looked like an ISP/Network issue. They (the ISP) had almost persuaded me it was not a network problem because there were no packets actually being dropped (at the command prompt:- "pathping bbc.co.uk").
My NIC (Atheros L1) doesn't have the full range of settings and was already set to "Auto" but I followed your advice and loaded the Network Monitor and found a huge number of "Continuation" packets. I suspect this is caused by poor settings for MTU and RWIN on my SBS Vista machine. I went to http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/MTU2.htm and followed their advice and it has been streaming flawlessly for the last hour. I should add that I used SqueezePlay on the SBS machine (Vista) cabled to the router to eliminate other issues. CPU & memory loads were incredibly low but the NIC must have just been giving up the ghost with all the fragmented packets. So my advice is:- 1. Follow Tim's advice above re: setting up the PC interface. 2. Visit "Kitz" as it seems the MTU & RWIN settings are TOTALLY dependent on your ISP. Their advice summarised:- Use Ping to determine the best MTU for your ISP (mine was 1458) Use their calculator to find RWIN based on your line speed. Download Dr.TCP to set the values on your PC. 3. Set the new MTU value on your router. 4. BUT, despite the fact that it is now streaming cleanly, Vista has already seen fit to reset the MTU on reboot to 1486. "netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces" Vista is supposed to tune MTU automatically but we know what a pile of cack Vista is. There is a shed load of advice on Kitz for setting on Vista; I haven't followed that yet (ain't broken now so why fix it). Hope this helps. Reg -- RegH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RegH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15546 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87973 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
