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I seem to be having some problems with streaming to multiple destinations simultaneously -- I've literally got, at this moment, 3 phones, 2 tablets, and 2 computers, all streaming audio. It's been running surprisingly decently for the most part, however sometimes when switching songs, a player will be stalled for several minutes before receiving enough data to start it on it's mission. The computer doing the serving isn't even breaking a sweat CPU wise (subsonic and the occasional ffmpeg processes combine for less than 5% cpu) . . . the router doesn't seem to be being any more heavily taxed than it can handle, either, although i don't have any specific metrics on it. The three phones are all connected via WiFi B/G, the tablets via WiFi N, and the PCs are all wired.

Anyone else have any experience with larger quantities of users than 1 or 2, and experiencing anything similar?

* edit: could this be caused by all the devices using one of two different user accounts?

I've had over 20 simultaneous users so I don't think subsonic is the issue there. Could be a network thing or something unique to your setup but hard to know without more metrics. I've never had multiple user accounts all streaming but I can't see how that would cause problems?

Are the "hiccups" only on the wifi devices ?
If so you may want to try changing the tablets to B/G mode.
Some routers have an issue working in mixed mode.

hmm. I'm going to try setting up an individual subsonic user for each test device, and see what happens there. Even if that doesn't fix it, I will at least then be able to get accurate stats from Subsonic's graphs.

It's -mostly- the phones that are losing, so I'm wondering if it's the phones softwares, or the B/G side of the router. But it does happen to all of the connections at some points. Good to know other people have done this before, though.

As an aside, I tried two tablets streaming video simultaneously, that didn't work at all.