Roberto Aramburu

I'm looking for routers to create a local network for my devices for when I play live since not all of the venues I intend to play will have an internet connection.

Any info you can give me, what model do you use and why, what is the minimum speed necessary for a stable connection, comments, thoughts will be greatly apreciatted.

Mira, TouchOSC and iPad users.
I'm looking for routers to create a local network for my devices for when I play live since not all of the venues I intend to play will have an internet connection.
Any info you can give me, what model do you use and why, what is the minimum speed necessary for a stable connection, comments, thoughts will be greatly apreciatted.
Thanks.


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We use a simple 10/100 router for OSC. It's doing fine for us, but note that we're mainly focused on sync distribution, so the dataload is very low, even compared to other OSC setups.

We have a stream of /clock i going out @ 480 ppq and that's tight as tight can be.

We use a simple 10/100 router for OSC. It's doing fine for us, but note that we're mainly focused on sync distribution, so the dataload is very low, even compared to other OSC setups. 

We have a stream of /clock i going out @ 480 ppq and that's tight as tight can be.


I use a linksys wifi router on stage. Any recent wifi router will work fine. Typically there are three iPads, two iPhones and a couple of laptops connected to it (one of which is via an Ethernet cable) and both OSC and MIDI move through it. The only configuration I did was to enable MAC filtering so that only known devices could connect, with no need for a password.

I use a linksys wifi router on stage. Any recent wifi router will work fine. Typically there are three iPads, two iPhones and a couple of laptops connected to it (one of which is via an Ethernet cable) and both OSC and MIDI move through it. The only configuration I did  was to enable MAC filtering so that only known devices could connect, with no need for a password.


Any up to date router can do WiFi connection today. Its actually looks cool with the antennas piping out of the flight case, better get a 3 antennas one, probably stronger signal. And if possible connect non moving devices like laptops with a cable...

its so very important to keep it safe so get a real good long password and the maximum security setup in the router and as mentioned before set Mac address filter. If you can , better set it to hide the ssid , its kinda complicating things but keep people from even trying to log in the WiFi.

Actually does anyone knows how to hide ssid and still log in with an android device?

I couldn't do it myself.and looking for a way to do so.

I'm running a lightning control desk with 1 or 2 laptops running some midi to osc max patch, a martin m1 desk and 2 android tablets with a simple router and its all working fine, I can control the desk from the stage, about 30 40 meters away, but only before the show, when the arena is full with people the WiFi cover drops to 10 meters around the console, and its enough for me.

Any up to date router can do WiFi connection today. Its actually looks cool with the antennas piping out of the flight case, better get a 3 antennas one, probably stronger signal. And if possible connect non moving devices like laptops with a cable...
its so very important to keep it safe so get a real good long password and the maximum security setup in the router and as mentioned before set Mac address filter. If you can , better set it to hide the ssid , its kinda complicating things but keep people from even trying to log in the WiFi.
Actually does anyone knows how to hide ssid and still log in with an android device?
I couldn't do it myself.and looking for a way to do so.
I'm running a lightning control desk with 1 or 2 laptops running some midi to osc max patch, a martin m1 desk and 2 android tablets with a simple router and its all working fine, I can control the desk from the stage, about 30 40 meters away, but only before the show, when the arena is full with people the WiFi cover drops to 10 meters around the console, and its enough for me.


I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "We have a stream of /clock i going out @ 480 ppq and that’s tight as tight can be." Wetterberg.

DHJDHJDHJ- sounds like you have what I'm looking for, would you care to share the model and specs of your router?

I was told to look for speed (bandwidth), # of possible simultaneous connections. I'm guessing that speed and number of connections are related in the same way you connect a certain amount of laptops to your wifi connection until the signal starts to lag and slow down. But I'm not sure how much speed is too little or too much.

DHJDHJDHJ- sounds like you have what I'm looking for, would you care to share the model and specs of your router? 

I was told to look for speed (bandwidth), # of possible simultaneous connections. I'm guessing that speed and number of connections are related in the same way you connect a certain amount of laptops to your wifi connection until the signal starts to lag and slow down. But I'm not sure how much speed is too little or too much.


>We have a stream of /clock i going out @ 480 ppq and that’s tight as tight can be.

Our main OSC message is "/clock", and that has a resolution of 480 Points Per Quarter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulses_Per_Quarter

Essentially it's a 32bit message, an integer growing by 1 every 1920th of a bar, or 480ppq. So it'll rapidly count upwards, which essentially gives us an absolute position in a piece - the clock master could be rewound, and everyones position would follow.

To break this up in chunks:
Our main OSC message is "/clock", and that has a resolution of 480 Points Per Quarter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulses_Per_Quarter

Essentially it's a 32bit message, an integer growing by 1 every 1920th of a bar, or 480ppq. So it'll rapidly count upwards, which essentially gives us an absolute position in a piece - the clock master could be rewound, and everyones position would follow.


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