Numpty router question.

Essentially it appears, whats going on here is your wifi is not very good. 

Seems that way but why exactly? Aye, there's the rub. Maybe it's the router, maybe it's the service, maybe it's the magic goblin that lives in the modem...

Anyway, hard wiring everything seems to have eliminated the dropout problem so I'm sticking with that for now.

Luckily my new situation allows me to have all the equipment against the wall handily close to four leccy plugs (all radial, no ring circuits) so no enormous ethernet-cabled cable runs needed.

So it's all going swimmingly. No dropouts. Another numpty question...

I'm getting a download speed of 11Mbps.  Would the sound quality of what I'm listening to improve with faster download speed?

I'm assuming that the fact that I've got the streamer hard-wired doesn't change the situation vis-a-vis the available uptake if I'm using my PC, which is unavoidably using my local (house) network?

All knowledgeable replies grovellingly gratefully recieved. 

Mike1951 posted:

So it's all going swimmingly. No dropouts. Another numpty question...

I'm getting a download speed of 11Mbps.  Would the sound quality of what I'm listening to improve with faster download speed?

I'm assuming that the fact that I've got the streamer hard-wired doesn't change the situation vis-a-vis the available uptake if I'm using my PC, which is unavoidably using my local (house) network?

All knowledgeable replies grovellingly gratefully recieved. 

No the sound quality would stay the same. the data would come down more quickly but the file is the file in terms of it's structure, type, and credential. More bandwidth will help with download (and sometimes upload speed, bit it is dependant on many factors, DSL copper versus fibre, contention ratio's, line noise cab and exchange distance etc. For my experience Naim kit has never been at it's best over wi-fi as other have suggested Cat6(a) is why I use and it's flawless.

The 11 Mbps is download from the OP's ISP and nothing to do with wifi. In any case I agree with LH that it's plenty for any streamed audio and even streaming HD video at the same time probably wouldn't have any effect on sound quality.

Not relevant to the ND5XS, but interesting in this context, is that the new Uniti streamers (e.g. Atom, Nova) pull the data down as fast as they can and store it locally for playback. Apparently once the data is on board you can unplug the ethernet connection and the music will continue to the end of the track. This strategy should reduce the problem of dropouts etc from variations in broadband performance. I suspect this also means that Atom & Nova will not benefit from "premium quality" top dollar ethernet cables because the streamer won't be reading the data from the ethernet cable at all.

best

David

Marvellous.

Cat 7 already in place. 

Cheers.

Cat 6 in an home environment is overkill, Cat 7 is over kill and a total pain in the arse. You would be better off with cat5e, both to your pocket and working with the stuff.

Agree with Gary on this one.