I appear to have solved the problem.

Originally Posted by Gianni
Inspired by a comment from Ratbert (thanks Russ) about noisy devices, I switched off and unplugged the two EoP devices and switched off the 818v2/ID41. I then plugged in the EoP devies into the "other" plug outlet of the twinned power points. Then switched on distant (into the power) EoP first, then close EoP (out of power), then finally the 818v2/ID41.

I have since run Sooloos non-stop for 48 hours including streaming Radio 4 non-stop for 23 hours and palying many streamed music files. I put the 818v2/ID41 into standby for a few hours and started streaming R4 again - which has now been running for ~15 hours.

The trick (compared with just rebooting everything) appears to be the unplugging and replugging of the EoP devices (possibly the other gang is electrically cleaner and less noisy?) and then the sequence of power activation.


In terms of the observed behaviour, I am led to understand that BBC R4 uses "multicasting" to reduce load on its source servers. I think that means that it provides single feeds to major network nodes and domestic streaming is served from those nodes, including re-synching when there are interrupts. That process seems to fail when the local EoP connection is interrupted. Streaming from foreign radio stations or from web sites does not use multicasting so does not suffer the same breaks I was getting from BBC R4.

Ultimately the EoP connection had become so unstable/noisy that everything was breaking down.

Fingers crossed for the moment.

In the spirit of Spinaltap, I would like to confirm that I am not involved in the corrupt theft of a global sport.