Folks, I have a minor questio: Just lately I have acquired a nice laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600x) that really runs great on Linux. Now as an experiment I started XMMS on my desktop machine over SSH, and set the ESD output plugin to output to a remote system. After setting esd on my laptop to accept public IP connections I thought I could just stream my MP3's and Oggs over the Net. Unfortunately I get choppy sound. About every 10 seconds a bit of the song is dropped. Checking my network settings, I found my NIC was dropping packets due to a buffer overrun. Now, assuming my desktop outputs the sound at CD quality, that would be 44.1k times 16 bits = some 700kbit/s. Given that I am running a 100Mbit/s link, and both PC's are powerful enough to encode/decode the SSH connection in real time, how is this possible? Both PC's run a PIII at 500Mhz, the desktop with 256M and a rtl8139 NIC, the laptop 128M and a 3com 574. Any clues out there, or should I just set up an Icecast server? I'd like to be able to just put my laptop next to my bed and listen over a pair of headphones.
Mart
