Total Newbie - Apologies in Advance

[simoncn]

(24-04-2014 09:45)gnomus Wrote:  Sorry, Simon. Yes, the issue has only happened a few times - usually between 6-7pm in the evening. However, I have not had the issue since moving all my HiFi boxes around - although it has only been a few days.

The lights on the BT Homeplugs are supposed to indicate data transfer speeds. The 'Green' indicator means "High Transfer Speed"; 'Yellow' (BT call it Orange) means "Medium Transfer Speed"; and 'Red' indicates "Low Transfer Speed". When I have had the issue, the Homeplug has been flashing Red, although I am told that this should still allow enough transfer for audio streaming. I think I read somewhere that 'Red' indicates 1-4 Mbps. (I can't find that link at present, however.)

Audio streaming is more demanding than other types of network traffic (such as downloading) because it needs to achieve a constant rate with no delays. If your connection is running at 1 Mbps as an average rate, it is very unlikely that it can do audio streaming without dropouts. Even if the average rate is 4 Mbps, some dropouts could occur.

For testing purposes, you might be able to provoke the problem by setting MinimStreamer transcoding to flac:wav24. This will increase the bandwidth demand on the network connection.