Music Drops off With Certain Internet Use - Airport

I don't even know how to word the title, let alone do a search on this.

I have an Airport Express that is connected wirelessly to my network My Network i provided by my Belkin 54D and is a wireless N network.

When I play music through airport express and I'm active on the internet the music cuts off or stutters. This happens usually if I'm doing a moderating activity like moving a thread, or as in this Forum it's happening when I post.

I'm not that knowledgeable about Routers but I see another selection Belkin 54D 5gb available.

That's the set up. Can anyone tell me how I can overcome this internet interfering with the music playing problem?

hookbill said:

I don't even know how to word the title, let alone do a search on this.

I have an Airport Express that is connected wirelessly to my network My Network i provided by my Belkin 54D and is a wireless N network.

When I play music through airport express and I'm active on the internet the music cuts off or stutters. This happens usually if I'm doing a moderating activity like moving a thread, or as in this Forum it's happening when I post.

I'm not that knowledgeable about Routers but I see another selection Belkin 54D 5gb available.

That's the set up. Can anyone tell me how I can overcome this internet interfering with the music playing problem?

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I'm going to assume that you're using iTunes? I don't use it, so I can't tell you exactly where the option might be, but you could try seeing if there's an option to change the streaming buffer size. I used to have this problem with Songbird every once in a while and changing the streaming buffer value (to a larger integer) solved the problem entirely.

It is possible of course, that the issue lays elsewhere. Try that first and see if it helps.

Doug

Doug b said:

I'm going to assume that you're using iTunes? I don't use it, so I can't tell you exactly where the option might be, but you could try seeing if there's an option to change the streaming buffer size. I used to have this problem with Songbird every once in a while and changing the streaming buffer value (to a larger integer) solved the problem entirely.

It is possible of course, that the issue lays elsewhere. Try that first and see if it helps.

Doug

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Yes I'm using iTunes, but I have no idea where to change the streaming buffer size. Is that done in iTunes?

Also I'm reading that changing the channel on Airport helps, but I can't figure out how to do that either.

hookbill said:

Yes I'm using iTunes, but I have no idea where to change the streaming buffer size. Is that done in iTunes?

Also I'm reading that changing the channel on Airport helps, but I can't figure out how to do that either.

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A little Googling never hurt anybody: Quick Tip: Change iTunes Buffer Size for Smoother Streaming: Apple «

As for changing the channel for your Airport goes, go into your utilities folder (in Applications) and open "Airport Utility" Click on "manual setup" Look at my screenshot below

Doug b said:

A little Googling never hurt anybody: Quick Tip: Change iTunes Buffer Size for Smoother Streaming: Apple «

As for changing the channel for your Airport goes, go into your utilities folder (in Applications) and open "Airport Utility" Click on "manual setup" Look at my screenshot below

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I'll admit it didn't occur to me to try to Google Buffer size, but I've been googling the channel change for probably 2 hours.

I actually tried the way you had a set up but I lost my connection completely with airport and had to hit the reset button and hooked it back up to my wireless network.

I suppose I could do the same with create a wireless network but as of right now I'm doing well. I followed your link on the buffer size, I'll find out how that does tomorrow, great idea. But I stumbled across one other piece of information that suggested one of the things you can do is go to system preferences, network, select airport and advance. Click on tcp/ip and select none.

I did that and it seemed to solve the problem. I went to a couple of the Forums I moderate in and did some moderating work and there was no stutter or sound drop off. So I think I have the problem fixed now, but thank you very much for telling me about how to increase the buffer. Excellent idea.