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Squeezebox dropouts - another question

There have been many threads on this and I have tried to read them all, but I still have not solved the problem. I just bought a fancy-dancy dual band (2.4 and 5 Ghz) wireless Netgear router (N900, E4500). I use this to stream music to a Logitech Squeezebox Touch. I still get dropouts when streaming 96kHz files. The router is 20' line of site to the SBT. The SBT says signal strength is 100%. If I connect the SBT to the router with an Ethernet cable, everything is fine, no dropouts. I would prefer to go wireless for convenience and noise isolation. Any other suggestions? I have not been able to figure out how to change buffer size settings on the SBT or the router. Are there other settings I can try? Any help is appreciated.
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tboooe
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Questions for you...is your new wireless router N? What wireless type is the Squeezebox? If its not N I dont know if it has the speed to stream high res. Also, since your router is dual band I would put all my household items on one band and the Squeezebox by itself on another band. The reason is that the router will slow itself down to slowest device on the network/band.

I stream 1080p movies wirelessly in my house with my wireless router upstairs and my HTPC downstairs.
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tboooe
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The other option is use powerline networking. That should give you higher bandwidth and a more reliable wired connection. I used it for a while to stream 1080p movies until I got my wireless N router and HTPC. Be careful though, there is a lot of junk powerline network adapters out there.
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