Logitech Transporter FYI

I'll add my "I agree" to that too. I own a heavily modded SB3 and the wired connection sounds much better to me also.

I've never tried the wireless, but it's good to know I didn't waste my time routing Cat5e across the room.

This is true and only true is your WLAN is grossly overloaded or your Transporter suffers from a weak signal or interference from your neighbors' WLAN that may be on the same channel as your WLAN. Countless other 2.4Mhz devices such as cordless phones, garage door openers as well as bandwidth polluters such as microwave ovens can wreak havoc on your WLAN as well.

From my experience with my Transporter, going wireless to wired and back, I hear no discernable differences. But then again, I made sure that I'm not on the same channel as any of my neighbors and I'm using a directional antenna on my wireless router, which yields a solid 86 signal at my Transporter.

I don't doubt that you hear differences in your wired vs wireless setup; however, those differences probably have more to do with your WLAN environment than anything else.
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I don't doubt that you hear differences in your wired vs wireless setup; however, those differences probably have more to do with your WLAN environment than anything else.
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In my case at least two of my comparisons were done with a 98% signal strength. Dual-band routers have the option to operate at 5ghz and avoid conflicts with other devices. I obviously cannot speak for the OP. All I can say is that differences were unmistakable. As far as the WLAN network; my understanding with streaming, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that it either delivers the information or it does not. 2.4ghz interference issues and signal strength issues might result in dropouts, but I've never heard it blamed for SQ issues. I've also had three or four different friends using SB devices have the same finding (that ethernet yields better SQ) independent of my saying so.

All SB devices operate in the 2.4Ghz (IEEE 802.11g) band which, in many locations, is heavily polluted. Best case with 802.11g, you’ll see about 22 Mbit/s average throughput, but interference from other sources can cause constant resending of packets to replace corrupted or lost data, substantially reducing this data rate to your SB device, maybe as much as half or more. Additionally, increasing distance between antennas reduces the throughput, too. I'm not discounting your results as well as others with the same results, but my results were different. Most likely because I have few neighbors and I set my wireless router up on a channel that no one else in range was using. If you run DD-WRT on your wireless router, among its other unique features, you can pick any available channel, not just the few North America channels available with the factory firmware. Anyway, in my case I had to make it work since my PC is on the other side of the house and a permanent Ethernet cable run would be darn near impossible.

Because of the distance, I conducted my test using a 100’ CAT5e patch cable borrowed from work. I wanted to run the test because I had wondered about the differences if any, myself. Yes, I returned the cable!

Also, in order to get great WLAN performance to my listening room, I didn’t just plunk in a wireless router and turn it on. I had to jump through a few hoops. I configured my WLAN using a Buffalo Air Station with the high power radio chip, loaded it with DD-WRT firmware, installed a hi-gain directional antenna on the wall, picked a clear channel, and then turned up the output power slightly through the DD-WRT firmware.

Anyway, like you, I really enjoy the Transporter and it ain’t going anywhere anytime soon! Just using the Transporter’ s analog outputs, it bet the snot out of my old Mark Levinson No. 36 DAC not matter what transport was used with it. BTW, if you haven’t already, check out http://forums.slimdevices.com/.