NDS & NDX What is the spec for wi-fi and ethernet?

Hi Andy

I was told by Naim tech support that it is 100 Mbit not gigabit.

ATB

Ray

802.11n and 100Mb for the NDX, NDS and ND5X.

Uniti's or Qute's are on 802.11g and 100Mb unless upgraded tot he new 24/192 board.

Don't know anout the NDX or NDX but the other products in the range are 100mbps ethernet and 801.11g wireless.  Wasn't aware that the 24/192 board included an 802.11n upgrade also (?)

Could someone from Naim confirm?

802.11n or 802.11g for NDX & NDS?

Regards,

Andy

I think Orangutan has researched this previously so his answer is probably correct.  But Naim have definitely been slow on the "n" uptake!

Naim have confirmed "All our products are 802.11g at this time and Ethernet is 100mbps"

So I guess this may limit the sample rate of files that can be streamed over wi-fi.

Does anyone with an NDX know what the real world limit is over wi-fi, is it 24/96 or can 24/192 be achieved?

Regards

Andy

Haven't got an NDX but an ND5XS is the same in this respect:

24/96 yes, can be reliable with wi-fi in my real-world

24/192 no, not reliable with wi-fi in the same real-world.

Obviously, there will be differences depending on exactly what network gear you have and the nature of the house you put it in.

For complete reliability with 24/192 I needed to use wired Ethernet with all devices plugged into the same switch (server PC, ND5 and NAS)

"Naim have confirmed "All our products are 802.11g at this time and Ethernet is 100mbps"

I hesitate to contradict Naim but I believe my SU is 802.11n and I believe the 24/192 upgrade board also includes n

Andy, the most important network specification is the need to support multicast frames. Most consumer stuff fall back to simply rebroadcast multicast on all ports, if they don't specially support IGMP. However some very cheap broadband router / wireless acess point / switches do not  support multicast without errors. Bad implementations of multicast will cause Nstream to lose track of the NDX, or have a very poor performance with synchronisation between NDX and Nstream, or the NDX might completely disappear from Nstream. 

If you google your switch / access point / router type and the word multicast you will most likely see if it's a known issue or not, as more and more people use upnp or Apple streaming on thier networks now and far eastern cookie cutter vendors are having to up thier game.

Simon

Since you're spending so much on Naim gear, it really doesn't make sense to go cheap on networking components.

Go with the apple extreme. Job done. It's cheaper than a SNAIC.