JPLAYStreamer(JPLAY6 RC1)/MinimServer/BubbleUPnP

[simoncn]

(27-03-2015 19:27)JazzDoc Wrote:  Sorry Simon. I made a typo in the last line. It should have read ...

"Am I right in assuming that to connect at 5GHz would be the best option ... but not with the BT Home Hub 4?"

The question I guess I was asking is "Is BT Home Hub 4 a piece of s*** and should I get rid of it?" (LOL)

I don't have one of these (despite being continually bombarded with BT mailshots offering their lowest price ever). Based on what I have heard about them, I don't regret that decision.

You could add another wireless access point that supports the 5 GHz band without issues and connect this to your Home Hub using wired Ethernet. If you decide to do this, you could use the 5 GHz band for audio only and use the 2.4 GHz band for other network traffic.

Quote:I have now disabled 5GHz capability on my router. Channel 1 looks congested when I run WiFi Analyzer on my Android tablet so I will try with the channel fixed on 6. Having disabled 5GHz capability, everything will not run on 2.4GHz. My laptop running JPLAYStreamer/MinimServer is connected to my network via Ethernet.

I forgot to mention that although my files are stored in FLAC format, I am using flac:wav in the stream.transcode line under the System tab

Back to the drawing board

Transcoding FLAC to WAV will put a bit of extra load on your network because the WAV stream is uncompressed. You need to do this because JPLAYStreamer is limited to playing WAV streams only.