While I too would love to see client-side FLAC decompression, 802.11G, or both I have two wireless squeeze G's and rarely (though occasionally) experience drop-outs. Maybe you've got too much wireless gear? Or maybe you need to get another access point and segregate devices by channels. Just thoughts.
>From: "Phillip Kerman" <lists (AT) phillipkerman (DOT) com>
>Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion <discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
>To: "'Slim Devices Discussion'" <discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
>Subject: [slim] dropouts
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:42:01 -0700
>
> >
> > I have a couple issues:
> >
> > --when playing back apple lossless, does it get compressed
> > first if I have
> > set the "bitrate limiting"? Seems to dropout the same as my
> > FLACs with no
> > limit (see below).
> >
> > --what settings can I tune in order to make FLACs arrive at
> > the SB without
> > compression. That is, I want to use "no limit" but I keep
> > getting drop
> > outs. The SB is wireless but within 30' of the wireless
> > access point. I'm
> > getting signal strength around 80%.
> >
>
>Though I started this thread, I've come to the conclusion that I can't do
>FLAC uncompressed on my wireless network. Not the end of the world--I'll
>just get a long ethernet cable... I hope that works the same as my tests
>with a shorter cable.
>
>Anyway, I think part of the issue was my own misunderstanding. Namely, I
>figured if my FLAC was 900Kbps that the network has to be able to handle
>that bandwidth. In fact, because the decompression happens on the server,
>the network has to handle the full 1440Kbps (or whatever a CD is). So...
>yeah, I'd like to see decompression happen on the client side.
>
>Do people have trouble with drop outs over a standard 100Mbps network?
>Right now I have two wireless SBs; one wireless laptop on most of the time;
>a second wireless laptop sometimes; and the server machine wired to a router
>and cable modem.
>
>I can hear the difference between 320Kbps on-the-fly MP3 vs. true FLAC. Is
>it realistic to have FLAC without dropouts?
>
>Thanks,
>Phillip
>
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