mvordeme wrote: > > Anyway, today, a few things have changed. The day started with bad news. > The Receiver did not play anything without re-buffering. I checked the > signal strength, and it was 54 % (rather than below 30 % as before). But > during the night, the router had received a software update and failed > to activate the LAN port to the LMS on restart, so the players had been > under some stress. I power-cycled the Receiver and signal strength went > back up to 99 %. It has been playing without any problems, since. Right > now, it is playing a FLAC album from the local library although it is > connected to the WiFi router two floors below. The router shows a > connection speed of less than 10 MBit/s, but the Receiver still reports > a signal strength of around 95 %, and there are no interruptions in the > music. That has actually never worked before, and in my experience, even > the Booms would disconnect at such a low connection speed.
During my struggles with a receiver located in a nearby detached garage (say 60' router to receiver through two external walls), and the wifi signal strength at <50% (usually in the 30's)., the rebuffering is exactly what would happen, and it would be periodic (play for a set time, rebuffer, repeat) and once it was in that mode, I would have to go restart LMS, router, etc, can't remember what worked. The other problem was the disconnecting (getting lost) where I would have to factory restart both the receiver and controller. I have since moved the receiver closer, in a more direct line of sight (using a long RCA cable), and changed the orientation (the top of the receiver is pointing to the router) per this old thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105597-Receiver-Optimal-Orientation I now get about 65-75%. I am not in the building all of the time, but I have not had to battle it like I had in the past. I consider the issue solved. Your post got me curious, so I called up my router settings. This receiver has a TX data rate of as low as 11Mbps and jumps up as high as 36. The Rx data rate seems stable at 18. I have a touch on wifi that is 54Mbps for both, with a signal strength of 90% (read at LMS). I have an extra receiver laying around, but since it doesn't make sense sending it back and forth across the atlantic, I'd be happy to run some experiments for you. In the mean time, I feel pretty sure that your issue is what alot of people experience - marginal wireless and the receivers inability to handle/recover from network exceptions, weak signals. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113127 _______________________________________________ Duet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/duet
