Q: Has anyone found a fix for Apple's Airport Express Music Skipping?
I've been searching for weeks for a solution to my intermittent gaps in music, aka skipping. It is so frustrating. I really don't want to have to go to a wired solution. It will require too much time and an unattractive cable running through my rooms.
I use the Bright House Networks 5 ghz Arris DG1670 Router/modem that my provider rents to me.
The router is less than 30 feet from my airport express
The airport express is on the floor hooked up via fiber TosLink cable to my Focusrite Safire Pro 24.
- Thinking this might be an issue I have since turned it sideways to try that as a remedy so that the surface area in contact with the floor is less. The next step I will try is placing it on something instead of being on the bare floor. But considering how close everything is it shouldn't be too much of an issue either way.
I've tried:
- changing the channel on my router from 11 to 40 to 47 to auto. They all skip.
- I've tried both 5 ghz and 2.4 ghz connections.
- Streaming from my Macbook Pro, Streaming from my iPad Air 2
- Changing the setting from Mixed A/N to N only (since the Express only has N)
- Enabling and disabling WMM in the router settings.
- Changing the Bandwidth from 20/40 to 20 only and back again to 20/40.
- Changing the Beacon Interval to 500 ms from 100. (This supposedly helps with battery life and throughput.)
It all skips. Though after changing the channel to a higher one 44, enabling WMM, and putting the Express without anything right around it to block the antenna inside, it seems to skip a little less. It is likely that there are too many networks in my apartment complex nearby that are competing for bandwidth in the spectrums but I'm hopeful that someone may be able to suggest something else.
I suggest to anyone reading having the same issues to try some of the "fixes" I've tried above.
Thanks.
iPad Air, iOS 9.3.4, also on iPhone 9.3.3
Posted on Aug 13, 2016 9:30 AM