Bugzilla – Bug 16347
Server Choose Player drop down menu missing connected player
Last modified: 2010-08-02 14:07:15 UTC
With 5 players connected (4 hardwired and 1 wireless) and showing in Server settings status, the server choose player drop down intermittantly drops one of the players (not always the same one).
Some questions: - Which kind of players do you have ? - Could it be that your network isn't stable so some player sometimes loose the connection ? - Can you play music on the player that isn't shown in the status list ?
This bug report can / should be deleted or perhaps modified. The symptoms turned out to be resulting from unstable wireless connections and disappeared with hardwiring of the players. Detecting unstable players remains a bit of a challenge to the user as there are no built-in warnings in the SB Server. Would be nice if server connection statistics or dropped connections were automatically collected and a warning displayed for players experiencing poor connections. As it is, the user is left to analyze and detect these situations on their own, and simply displaying the wireless strength in the server settings for players does not highlight a player that has a history of unstability in its connection status. It would be more useful to add a statistic on the number of dropped packets and/or connection failures.
Enhancement request made: https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16428