Thanks guys. Lots of stuff to consider here. Will check out the wifi app for sure. Will look at the FAQ at Roon too.
Hard wiring would be very easy for me to do as there is open basement below my listening room and where my modem and router are.
My router is a fairly new NetGear with two antennas. I don't know all the specs but it is 5gHz.
auxinput, I wondered about the caching of movie data. That also makes me wonder why music couldn't be cached. Maybe a timing/clock issue?
ISP (which is our local phone company) recently called with an offer of faster service and improved modem for about the same price as current plan so I might do that too.
As far as a streamer I have waffled back and forth about a Node2. I've heard its DAC isn't all that great but it probably isn't any worse than the Modi I'm using now. And if I cut the Apple TV out of the loop, went hi-res streaming and hard wired the Node2 into my router I suspect SQ would be better than what I currently getting even with the limitations of the Node's DAC.
My only real concern here is that in the past any problems we've had with internet are always "out on the pole" according to the techs that come out. I'm worried that crappy local (backyard) infrastructure could turn out to be the real issue and who knows if that would ever get sorted.
Thanks again for all the great advice.
George
Hard wiring would be very easy for me to do as there is open basement below my listening room and where my modem and router are.
My router is a fairly new NetGear with two antennas. I don't know all the specs but it is 5gHz.
auxinput, I wondered about the caching of movie data. That also makes me wonder why music couldn't be cached. Maybe a timing/clock issue?
ISP (which is our local phone company) recently called with an offer of faster service and improved modem for about the same price as current plan so I might do that too.
As far as a streamer I have waffled back and forth about a Node2. I've heard its DAC isn't all that great but it probably isn't any worse than the Modi I'm using now. And if I cut the Apple TV out of the loop, went hi-res streaming and hard wired the Node2 into my router I suspect SQ would be better than what I currently getting even with the limitations of the Node's DAC.
My only real concern here is that in the past any problems we've had with internet are always "out on the pole" according to the techs that come out. I'm worried that crappy local (backyard) infrastructure could turn out to be the real issue and who knows if that would ever get sorted.
Thanks again for all the great advice.
George