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General discussion forum / Stuttering audio

« on: 2017-04-16, 01:11:12 »

I am on ver 2.90 of my RemoteRig 1258Mk2S. The audio stutters very badly. I have tried everything that I could find in the forum. My local network runs at 60Mbps down and 5Mbps up. The remote network is 150Mbps up and down. I have gone from one extreme to the other with advanced settings and none of it seems to make a difference. The connection starts out fine and after about 60 seconds starts stuttering. I am getting about 25 to 65ms ICPM. The remote unit is a static IP in in the wild.
There are rare occasions that it will run perfectly for hours on end without stuttering which leads me to believe that the network and routers are configured properly.
I am an IP manager and have resources to perform any test you might suggest.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Configuration, Webswitch 1216H / Re: Stuttering audio

« on: 2013-04-29, 13:35:14 »

Thanks Mike,

I increased all the buffering to MAX. So far the stutter is behaving.
I see what you are talking about with the lag, but it's by no means unusable. As long as you know it's going to be laggy, it's very usable. This paticular radio is not my main base unit that I sit at and search for contacts, it's just a novelty radio that I put up at the TV station. The VHF/UHF antenna is up about 400ft. It's fun to play at that altitude. The HF antenn being over the TV station is way too noisy to be comfortable with. With that in mind, I usually just twist the dial very little. It mainly sits on one of two VHF stations. The lag is not an issue using it in thay manner. Put it this way. I would rather have my antenna at 300ft with lag than have my antenna at home in my attic (deed restricted neighborhood).

When we went digital with feeds over the internet at the TV station, we went from almost instant response from our field reporters to about 4 seconds. We thought it was going to be the end of the World and unusable. After we finally accecpted it, and realized that nobody really noticed, we work around it on every live shot.

I will do some more testing with different settings to see what the limit is and let you know. BTW, what continuous bandwidth does it requre to keep a nice flowing stream?

73 de Michael

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Configuration, Webswitch 1216H / Re: Stuttering audio

« on: 2013-04-29, 01:24:27 »

I will update my boxes and try it again.

You would think that the Remoterigs should have the ability to easily send audio over an internet connection without stutter.
I work as an Engineer at the local TV station and we send live HD broadcast video all day long over the internet without stuttering. The units have adjustable FEC built-in which helps even in the worst connections.

Audio should be a piece of cake. Our Radio station sends broadcast quality audio all day long over slow cellular card. There is no excuse for stuttering when all we are listening to is noisy AM, or USB HF no-quality audio.
I hope ther is be a better answer than "its a internet problem anyway".

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Configuration, Webswitch 1216H / Stuttering audio

« on: 2013-04-26, 23:41:26 »

I have the RRC-1258MkIIs with the WiFi interface. The software is ver. 2.68. on both sides. The radio is an iCom-706MKIIg using the removable face-plate cable setup.

The audio sounds great, but every few seconds it does a quick hiccup or stream stutter. If I am rotating the dial, it will also freeze the screen. When I say freeze, I mean for about 1/2 of a second. Sometimes it does freeze, then comes back after about 10 seconds, but not real often.

I have tried all the other codecs and only a few seem to be usable and both have the issue.
My network connection is high speed cable modems on both ends. Speedtest on the radio side (work location) shows 5Mbps up, and 20Mbps down. The control side (my house) shows 10Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up.

It is very annoying, especially when you are on HF with no help from squelch. Makes a great product feel bad. I have read of other users on this forum experiencing the same issue, but have not tripped across someone that has solved it yet.

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Configuration, Webswitch 1216H / Re: WebSwitch Basic 1216H relay fault prevention

« on: 2013-04-26, 23:04:32 »

Thanks Jan,

I had a sneaking suspicion that something like that was going on.

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Configuration, Webswitch 1216H / WebSwitch Basic 1216H relay fault prevention

« on: 2013-04-24, 01:24:21 »

I want to use the "WebSwitch basic" for remotely selecting one of 5 antennas. I currently have a manual DXengineering selector switch. It has one wire to each of 5 relays. A 5 position rotary switch provides 12 Volts to any desired relay as they are selected.
My question is:
Can I use the "WebSwitch Basic" to do the same thing? Let the switch provide 12 Volts (one at a time) to any one of 5 relay outputs?
I'm pretty confident that it will work for this, however I am concerned that it doesn't have protection built into the software to prevent it from selecting 2 or more relays at a time. I know there is a selection on the setup that says "allow more than one relay to be selected" Y/N.
I did select this on your test box, but there were a couple of times that I went back to the relay set page and saw number 1 and 2 both turned on at the same time. This worries me as it would probably burn up my antenna selector box.
Any thoughts?