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[Old Id] Music in another room

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fitbrit:
Feature request for the next version: wired networking too, please!

JimH:

--- Quote from: rjm on January 07, 2011, 12:16:23 am ---How does this behave on a busy wireless network? Say when another system has maxed out up and down with a Torrent. Does the music get priority or do we have to manually choke the network hogs?

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We have a busy network and only saw occasional problems.  We don't download a lot though, so it's hard to say just yet.  If a Torrent download affects your network now, it will probably cause problems with an Id.

Lobotom1:
Wow,

That is so close to what I am looking for since so long !! My only concern is that it is wireless only. I am now so sad, I rely so much on my wired network :(

Hope the wired version will come soon.

Lobo.

JimH:
I just hooked an Id up to the multi-room speaker system that the previous owner of the house installed about 15 years ago.  I can now select music from my server by using an Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab shown in picture), start it playing, then turn up the volume on the speakers in any room.  Pretty nice.

fitbrit:

--- Quote from: JimH on January 07, 2011, 06:56:27 am ---We have a busy network and only saw occasional problems.  We don't download a lot though, so it's hard to say just yet.  If a Torrent download affects your network now, it will probably cause problems with an Id.

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To Jim and RJM:
Jim, your network was probably busy with intra-office networking, right? Most internet connections are not fast enough to saturate a 56 Mbps wireless network, but file transfers within the network certainly can.
So if a 10 Mbps internet connection is saturated with torrent downloads, that still leaves plenty of headroom for sending music on a 56 Mbps wireless network. I doubt the ID would suffer from lack of bandwidth in most users' homes. Dropouts and interference is another matter of course.
 
If, however, you're streaming video or doing file transfers within the network, hence using the full 56 Mbps bandwidth, you may run into trouble.

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