I sympathise; you could expect better from an advertised function of the device. Sadly, you can't do much to mitigate the cold hard facts of an under-powered ARM processor doing dual duty as server and client.
For a solution at work, without putting rogue devices on the network, my suggestion would be to buy a supported NAS device with sufficient compute power (e.g., NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus, or Synology DS212+). I know this will cost as much again as the Touch, but a direct ethernet connection between a decently powered NAS and a Touch is a very robust solution for playing your private music collection. You can install a DHCP server on the NAS if you wan't to avoid messing around with static IP addressing on the Touch (as long as you are sure you will keep the NAS on its own isolated network). The only down-side from my perspective is that you can't enjoy the benefits of cloud-based music services, but that option is already precluded if you're not allowed to put "rogue" devices on your company's internal LAN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95280 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
