2012-02-09, 22:54
lsavery Wrote:Ok, there is a known issue with TC/AE firmware 7.6 which will flip-flop AFP and SMB shares, this can cause the buffering seen in XBMC (both across wired and wireless connections).
This affects old and new TimeCapsules and Airport Extremes. Once you update to the new firmware (or buy a new unit with the 7.6 firmware) you will find that there is a connect-disconnect-reconnect process going on behind the scenes which causes a delay on the stream and thus the buffering.
The simple way around this is to downgrade the firmware to 7.5.2.
I went from 7.5.2 to 7.6 and had nothing but buffering problems, when I went back to 7.5.2 they went away. You can see the connection log on the Airport/TimeCapsule and it bounces up and down throughout - it seems to be a connection timeout which has been added for iCloud compatibility.
7.6.1 Firmware has just been released, but I am avoiding that at the moment until I get a clear couple of days to test.
Hope this helps.
I've used 7.5.2 and 7.6. throughout and haven't had any problems like that (even over wifi)...