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An odd fix for AirTunes intermittent dropouts
Authored by: ipearx on May 15, '06 08:05:09PM

I would try changing the channel that your airport express works at - try channel 1, 6 and 11 and see if there's any difference.
Also I've found NetMonitor is great to actually see what's going on - it's quick to see if the network is stuttering or not.
http://homepage.mac.com/rominar/net.html

I've made a diagram of streaming to my Airports showing the connection quality difference between streaming normal, with the multiple speaker option, and finally to 2 airports.
http://pear.co.nz/public/airport_express_graphs.gif
Interesting the normal streaming method with 1 airport is not nearly as solid and clean as using the multiple speakers option, even to only 1 express.

My guess it must use a different streaming method, to keep them all in Sync. I think it's amazing it can synchronise the computer sound to the airports at all!

I'm also guessing they're working their way to synchronising video with the sound output - it's only one more step away! Quicktime just needs the ability to delay a video and we'll be there.



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An odd fix for AirTunes intermittent dropouts
Authored by: JasonD on May 16, '06 11:34:34AM

I read someplace recently that if you change your Airport Base Station to do either 802.11b OR g that it'll be a fix for the iTunes dropouts. I think the default is to allow b AND g.

I switched to 802.11b only (for compatibility reasons)

It worked flawlessly on my 2.16 MBPro



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