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In article <vilain-E5AD7B.15520812082008@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
 Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article <siegman-212608.14412512082008@news.stanford.edu>,
>  AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 

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> > Music source is iTunes on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.5; second laptop 
> > is MacBook running OS 10.4.  Both laptops see the Airport Express as a 
> > remote speaker choice in iTunes speaker selection menu.
> > 
> > Observed behavior is that Internet response time for second laptop 
> > attempting to read email with Eudora or surf with Safari drops to a 
> > crawl as soon as first laptop starting sending music through the AE unit.
> 
> I easily see this with my Linksys WRTG54L.  Maybe it's the aftermarket 
> network card I have in my G4 but I went back to a wired connection 
> because of the bursty connection.  It didn't cope with streaming radio 
> from the 'net to the AE box on my stereo and downloading stuff news 
> groups.  A wired 100BT connection works flawlessly.

Drifting off topic as regards Airport bandwidth here, but since you 
mention radio, I'll mention that I managed to swamp my USB setup by 
putting the audio output from my digital TV set top box into an iMic 
connected to my G3 iBook (which has USB 1, not USB 2), which in turn is 
connected to my stereo.

When the set top box was on, whether for TV or radio, the scanner 
software couldn't establish a connection, and printing was absurdly slow 
(I have an all-in-one Brother printer, which has a USB connection). 
Disconnecting the set top box from the iMic solved the problem. 

The real answer here would be to get a new stereo or pre-amp with more 
inputs, but that leads to a very slippery slope for the wallet :-)

-- 
Paul Sture