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December 21, 2008 08:43 AM

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misu

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First of all, hello to all, I'm new here, just got my Eva 8000 and setit up.

... And immediately got the first problem: While playing Internet Radio, after sometime, the playback stops. Where "sometime" varies between 1 minute (antenne Bayern, germany) and several minutes (other radio stations...)

Trying to play again the playback generally resumes (sometimes I do get the station not available though)

Anyone else experienced this? 

My Eva is connected to the network via WLAN to a router, WLAN strength "Great", Router is connected toa broadband DSL modem (6Mbit). 

I have the latest Firmware (2.0.159 GR)

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December 21, 2008 10:25 AM

Welcome to the forums....

The issue is most likely caused by using a wireless connection. You could try hooking it up wired as a test and may find that it works fine. It could also be the stream your trying to play is dropping off for a second and the EVA can't recover the stream. When streaming to a pc you wouldn't notice this as much as the buffers are much larger, the software is designed to recover the stream, etc. Also the EVA is limited memory wise (it's basically Linux on a chip).

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December 22, 2008 11:34 AM

Welcome to the community, misu - glad to have you here!

I will second pardizzone's advice, I have had much better luck streaming via a wired connection compared to running the EVA 8000 wireless. I experienced occasional dropouts and audio "popping" on wireless, all of which was taken care of by running a hard wired connection.

Good luck and enjoy!

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December 22, 2008 4:10 PM

Peter Redmer said: Welcome to the community, misu - glad to have you here! I will second pardizzone's advice, I have had much better luck streaming via a wired connection compared to running the EVA 8000 wireless. I experienced occasional dropouts and audio "popping" on wireless, all of which was taken care of by running a hard wired connection. Good luck and enjoy!

Hello

Thanks to both of you for the advice. I will deffinitely try it (as soon as my ethernet to coax converters arrive, but that's a different story).

However I think it's probably not so much th wireless itself - in the same wireless setup, streaming from the PC to Eva did not have theinterrupts.

The part with the occasional stops in the stream does make sense though. The interrupts come at irregular timings, the same station ran for hours later in the evening. Earlier in the afternoon it kept dropping off after minutes. 

About the buffers - hmmm, not sure if it's so much a hardware restriction as a programming issue. The Eva does say it has so and so much of memory free (system info). Maybe netgear should try to make those buffers bigger with Internet Radio ... (like in the next firmware update)

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January 4, 2009 4:02 PM

Small update: 

Netgear support closed my case with indication to switch to wired instead of WLAN. 

I still don't think this is the root cause, but I will do it. 

 In the meantime I found some indication that in firmware 2.1.81 there was a improvement in the internet radio buffers and the reconnect on session timeouts. 

Now what I haven't figured out is if the 2.1.81 is newer or older than 2.0.159 which I have on my Eva. 

If anyone knows this, I would be obliged. 

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January 4, 2009 4:55 PM

Any firmware that starts with 2.0 is public release firmware. Any that start with 2.1 is newer "beta" firmware and may fix what your looking to correct but break something else that worked before (that's why it's beta).....

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January 5, 2009 4:39 AM

Hi pardizzone,

Okay, basically that is what I presumed.

After some more searching through the NG forum
(http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=8150) seems to me that the versioning concept is simpler than I initially thought - a firmware is kept beta until at some point is released, without any minor version change (I thought for a second that they are using some Linux Kernel versioning concept where the odd minr version is the beta and the even is the released).

Hmmm ... I think I'll give this 2.1.81 a go. It is from 21.06.2008, while the 2.0.159 is from Jan 2008. I'll report the experience :)

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January 9, 2009 5:44 PM

Report: with 2.1.81 it played for over 6 hours without stopping ... yuhuuu...

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