Wifi vs USB

Roku or Squeezebox for a PC, Apple Extreme for the Apple world.

Squeezebox is rumored to have a better built in DAC for better sound out of the box and costs more. Roku costs less. I use external DACs with Roku for best sound. Many do with Squeezebox also.

Also Logitech seems more active in releasing new versions of Squuezebox these days whereas Roku Soundbridge design has been more static. Newer higher bandwidth wireless N support might be useful if Logitech provides that yet and your Wifi router supports it, but Wireless G works fine as well and costs less.

Logitech is oddly quiet on the topic of 802.11N
Sigh.
Art

Art,

I did upgrade to a top of the line Netgear wireless N router recently from a secod or third generation Linksys that I had been running for years. I found this has helped with throughput to my Rokus, which are only wireless G, despite technically the same maximum wireless bandwidth, in that the range appears to be greater and I believe the processors and software used are faster and more efficient.

We tend to forget sometimes that devices like routers are just specialized computers with specialized processing, software etc. This kind of processing generally gets better and faster over time, and not all modern routers are created equal. A faster more efficient router still helps even if the pipeline from router to wireless devices still has essentially the same capacity (wireless G protocol) as before.

I don't believe the Transporter's performance would benefit from 802.11N as G is plenty fast for streaming audio, even high-rez. But if you are running an all-N network, having a G device on it drags down the performance of the entire network. I have that problem with TiVo, but whatcha gonna do?

If its the only device using the network and everything is set up optimally, probably not. I'm thinking in scenarios where units are further apart and there are multiple concurrent network users (as is often the case in my house) it might.