In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:33:22 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:


TBH at present I've not decided if for me 320k gives a satisfactory
trade-off between reliability of stream connection and quality. Dunno
about you, but so far, each time I've tried the current experimental
stream I get drop outs on average about once or twice an hour (about 1
sec lost each time) which rather disrupts listening to a long piece of
music. Wheras at 128k or 192k I almost never get such dropouts.

Slainte,

Jim

How is your broadband connection though?

Fast enough that I can normally watch the *TV* iPlayer without problems
if wish.

For reference I just checked using the BBC iplayer diagnostic and for both
my laptop and shuttle this gave 2400 kbps for download speed and 2200 for
streaming. I'd agree that isn't very fast. But it should be ample for
320k *provided* the connection streams reliably.

I also use 256/320 from elsewhere at times. The problem can be with
occasional brief delays. My guess is that this is simply a machine
somewhere along the way being temporarily otherwise occupied or some
packets going AWOL. Hence I suspect this is a matter of the levels of
buffering/retries/requests not being quite adequate.

Slainte,

Jim

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