Hi
The layout of my house isn't conducive to running cables so I have invested in an Asus solution with a RT-AC87U Router and its matching Media Bridge the EA-AC87. The idea is that the 2 communicate at a nominal 1700Mbs on the 5Ghz band. In reality the utility they provide shows a connection speed of 585 Mbs so much for marketing hype, but that should still be good enough for Blu Ray etc.
I have a streamer (Cambridge Audio CXN) connected by wire to the Media Bridge and the MainPC connected by wire to the router , MC running in server mode on the main PC (i7 loads of RAM , SSD for programs etc plus a 3Tb HDD for data storage).
I have a Zone Switch set to detect changes to Audio and Video and switching to either the CXN or the Mede8er video part.
My problem ...
Normally I see the CXN in the Playing Now tree and all is well. I control the whole thing with JRemote , latest versions of everything. I also see my Onkyo TR-NZ800 AV amp which is connected wirelessly , there is never a blip with this (points to CXN ?)
Every now and again , there is no logic to it , I lose connection between MC and the CXN. JRemote shows only This Device and the Onkyo. To get things going normally requires either a restart of the CXN or MC or sometimes both.
Its so random that I don't know which end to start at.
The Asus Utility shows a network map and shows both MainPC and CXN connected. Clicking on IP "Hyperlinks" opens up the config page of the CX so its connected OK.
The symptoms are that I play a track of several on an album and at the end it simply stops. And the CXN has disappeared from the JRemote device list.
If I kill this network and run wirelessly straight to the CXN I still see the issue but not as often.
Has any body (hint Andrew G , Glynor
) any ideas where to start digging, its driving me slightly potty , I can't settle down to hour or two's listening without having to reset stuff.
I was demoing Roon recently and don't recall having this issue. I am going to look at an alternative DNLA server to see if I can eliminate that effect , but bottom line is I want to stay with my current system, but I want it to work.
Mike