The infamous "network issue" or something else?

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@nickghough

You’re right - it is only 2-3 seconds but it is still infuriating.

With the current 1.43 (151) version of Mosaic Control, I rarely see a “Lost Connection…”.

Looking back at the thread where you first outlined your problem…

@nickghough

My Bartok is hardwired to a Melco switch on my rack which in turn is hardwired to a UDM Pro Router and then to the Virgin Media modem.

If your connections are still the same, one possible change I might suggest is to connect your Bartok to a spare port on the Wireless Access Point that your iPad connects to, instead of to the Melco Switch; meaning, reduce the Mosaic Control (iPad) to Bartok hop-count by one network element. By the way, what brand/model is that WAP?

@nickghough

I agree in the world of high end tech things can get a bit finickity but this is surely avoidable!?

Sure, but I suspect not without dCS going through major re-design/re-engineering of Mosaic’s architecture and how it works.

With the exception of Naim, Sim Audio and maybe a couple more - and no doubt they all have issues - majority of top DAC vendors don’t make their own App; MSB, Nagra, Wadax etc. Not to sound facetious, but if dCS takes away music playback management from Mosaic Control, and force people to use mConnect, or BubbleUPnP, or Roon like those other vendors, maybe the complaining stops?

@glevethan

I do, however, believe that problems of this type do not belong happening on what most of us believe to be end game units in the digital playback world.

During my 9 year use of a Linn Klimax DS (it is still here and continually has its internal hardware kept up to date) the unit and it’s streaming board have been bullet proof having NEVER exhibited any glitches.

Similar to Paul, with my dCS components, “occasional” hang/crash is like maybe once every 6 months; I rarely encounter it. It might be useful to understand how frequently it happens for you, note the sequence of events preceding the failure, and escalated to support @ dCS.

That said, dCS’ S800 boards is literally a Single-Board-Computer running an embedded Linux separate from the rest of dCS’ embedded system. Pick any SBC, very few of them running real-time code don’t occasional glitch across those sorts of time period and require a reboot.

I don’t know what streaming platform the Linn Klimax DS uses, but I doubt it’s as upgradeable as dCS’ S800. Ironically, 20 years ago, the constant failure of my (Meridian and) Linn digital source components is what led me to dCS to begin with!

PS Edit: I just took a look, the original Linn Klimax DS had a Xilinx Vertex-4 X20 at its streaming core; thats a PowerPC embedded FPGA SOC. Linn probably has their own proprietary OS that runs on that chip. It’s not as powerful as dCS’ S800 board, but definitely upgradeable. I stand corrected.