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I prefer hardwired anyway, so you two stop your bickering! Seriously, thanks to everyone for their help. It really WAS cool when all this fell together! All of a sudden, after years of no networking happening AT ALL, I'm listening to music on my Denon streamed from one computer and controlling the Denon through Mozilla from a different room. And it was all Plug 'n Play in an environment where NOTHING ever seemed to be Plug 'n Play! Before buying the receiver, I had all that talk about hooking up a hard disc to the USB jack. I had absolutely NO idea that I would boot a computer and get a window asking if I'd like to share my music with the Denon. Hell Yeah, I would! Now, I couldn't imagine buying a receiver without networking capability (as I sit here listening to a Blues station from New Zealand...)
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Re: Networking educational site?
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Oh, our Mark has all geeked up!
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Doesn't matter if you prefer hardwired or not, Mark, any kind of home networking is likely faster than your broadband connection. That's the limitation, and my contention is that streaming internet radio will take up a significant chunk of that connection. Easy enough to test; set up one of your computers to play streaming audio, and then see if web browsing on the other is affected.
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I've had "higher quality" internet radio playing quite a bit since yesterday oftentimes while I'm on the net and I haven't noticed any slowdown... Of course, I could always kill that source if I'm uploading/downloading something major to an FTP site or something...
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I'm late but whit any decent HSI connection you should be OK in a home environment to run an internet radio station and do most anything else short of a huge, unrestricted download.
In an office environment, sometimes it's just not the Internet bandwidth that is the bottleneck but all the other traffic floating around on your network that is taking up space. It all depends on how well it is configured, switches vs. hubs, intelligent routing and design, etc.
Using my pretty meager 5MB connection (country living) I'll have an internet radio station playing on the Squeezebox, run my works stuff via a VPN to my work, chat with co-workers over VOIP and download a decent size file from our work servers and never hear a hiccup on the radio feed.
I might even have the Axiom board up on my second monitor but that uses almost no bandwidth at all, except when Peter and Ken are spamming the heck out of the ShoutBox. heh heh.
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You mean Charles and Sean.
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Normally Yes, 'Calvin' but at this particular moment they are the names I see. snicker.
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This didn't seem "New Topic" worthy, but I'm curious:
Some of the internet radio I'm trying is obviously streaming versions of "traditional" radio stations. Some others never have an ad or DJ.
Q1--How is it they do this without ad income? I'm listening to a Belgian Blues station now that I've had on for 90 minutes, and they've had no break at all.
Q2--Is Pandora accessible in this type of setup with the Denon? I'm not sure how it "browses" other than Denon just building certain radio stations into the firmware somehow or something...
TOLD you I was stupid when it comes to Networking!!!
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You mean Charles and Sean. Hey, I keep the spam for myself.
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