Boxee Streaming from DroboShare

[thesteve]

Finally thought I had my media setup complete but am experiencing an unusable stream lag that I can't resolve. Here's my setup;

- Boxee runs on a macbook, 10.5.8 (2.2Ghz core duo, 2GB RAM)
- Wireless card type, Airport Extreme
- Wireless firmware, Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.21)
- Wireless protocol is 802.11n using a Netgear WNR router
- Droboshare is connected to the router (on a 100MB port)

When I access the content using finder, I can play any file with no problem, there is no lag, it streams perfect.

When I add the content folders through Boxee, I can browse them fine but when I choose a file to play, it takes a good 30 seconds to load and then it won't stream fast enough to play fluidly. If I pause the file for 4 mins or so it will then play OK for 15 mins and then I have to pause it again.

Can anyone propose anything I can check? Is there another way I can mount the shares to make Boxee access them more efficiently?

Any advice would be appreciated, this is very frustrating!
- S

[wileyj]

first thing to look at is your network throughput...

unless there's something strange in how boxee mounts network drives, there really shouldn't be a drastic difference in how it plays in quicktime vs boxee.
is this HD content, or sd? obviously, the hd content would take a LOT more bandwidth which would definitely have the lag.

is your router in dedicated N mode, not combined mode?
you also need to confirm you're getting the strongest signal possible (5hz if possible)

[thesteve]

Thanks for the reply. I changed boxee to access the Drobo through smb and it's a million times faster. The annoying thing is when you select a file to play it still takes about 45 seconds to start/buffer

- The router is dual band but the macbook I use connects to the wireless N SSID (5hz)
- It's only SD content I'm using