I apologize for not being clear.  The MP3's are being played on the
local workstation through the sound card.  I also have a TV card
(Hauppage WinTV), and when I went to watch the Diamondbacks tonight, my
network QOS went to hell.  In summary, whever I play MP3's or use the
WinTV card (which outputs sound through the sound card), the wireless
card starts dropping packets.

Possible interrupt conflict?

George


Bryce C wrote:
> 
> Besides copying them to your HD locally, no.  I only have my personal
> experience to give.  I have found that often, mp3 playing programs are
> actively streaming the audio the entire time.  This means tremendous
> amounts of traffice because every second, roughly 128Kb has to be
> transferred and no matter what you say or the 802.11b rating is, your
> not going to get 11Mbs because that's megabits and TCP/IP is, as far as
> I know, the most inefficient protocol in use.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 16:45, George Toft wrote:
> > I wish I were normal - but then life would be boring.
> >
> > I just set up a wireless network using a Linksys WMP11 (PCI card) and a
> > WAP11.  I get clear communication under normal conditions:
> > wlan0: 34. 53. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 36. 54. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 53. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 52. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 53. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 38. 57. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 52. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 36. 55. 0% loss
> >
> >
> > When I play MP3's using xmms, I get packet loss:
> > wlan0: 30. 46. 0% loss
> > wlan0: 32. 48. 5% loss
> > wlan0: 26. 41. 6% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 52. 8% loss
> > wlan0: 30. 47. 5% loss
> > wlan0: 36. 54. 5% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 51. 8% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 52. 10% loss
> > wlan0: 34. 52. 5% loss
> > wlan0: 36. 56. 5% loss
> > wlan0: 32. 49. 1% loss
> >
> > What you are looking at is the interface (wlan0), link quality, signal
> > level, and packet loss from my workstation to the WAP.
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion how I can listen to MP3's and not have
> > packet loss?
> >
> > George
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