BreezeBrowser and network ?

[pehabe]

Hi,
I have just bought Iomega Network Harddisk and connected it to my router. My idea is to have access to my pictures using wireless LAN or normal LAN.
Installation was OK and I could transfer my pictures from my XDrive Pro to the Iomega.
But problem occured when I tried to read or see the pictures on the Iomega using Breeze Browser 2.11.1. BB could not open or takes a very looooong time to see them although the normal Windows Explorer could see it immidiately.

Is there any setting in BB for speeding up the reading or so?

any comment would be appreciated ;)

[blackviolet]

wireless networks are slow in nature - even if you are getting 100 meg connection, it's going to be pretty painful waiting. i don't think there is a way to expedite the thumbnail generation in BB. but once they're generated it's very quick. you might fire off an email to Chris directly. fwiw- on my nas, explorer takes time to generate thumbnails.

[pehabe]

thanks blackviolet,
who is this chris? sorry for my dumb question. ;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Chris Breeze.. wrote Breeze Browser..

I doubt that BB can overcome what looks to be fundamentally a network speed issue...
Sure Explorer can display the files quickly.. it just uses the same image file type icon for all of them.. where as BB has to generate the thumbs by looking at the actual images.

[blackviolet]

wow CDS - you're up early. :p oh wait, i'm up late. or something like that...

[Crypto]

I have never used BB, but why would it take so long to generate a thumb? I have my RAW files stored on an external drive via USB2 thru another networked PC and I access them with RSE on my laptop (wired). It does take a little bit to build the thumbs with files containing lots of RAWs, but nothing unacceptable (under 1 min). With your connection, directly off the router, it should be even faster. I wouldn't attempt it wireless though. With a Wireless G you may be getting 30mbits per sec (if your lucky) and wired is normally a steady 100 mbps. Even with a 100mbits per sec connection you are only talking about 12.5 MBytes per sec. If you were transfering (which you are not) ..say, entire Raw files then that may only be one picture a second.
If you are able to actually view the photos reasonably fast via Explore, then I'm guessing your drive isn't the bottleneck and it's design of the software which requires a super fast network? Maybe upgrade to a gigbit network? Pretty cheap these days with new NIC cards and a Router.

[lancea]

I have BreezeBrowser Pro v1.2.1. My wireless LAN is a Belkin Pre-N, so plenty fast. I do find that handling RAW files over wireless is too slow, but generating the thumbnails isn't too bad. It takes perhaps a second each, and around 3 seconds to load a large-fine JPEG. If I remember correctly, when I reported a networking bug in an earlier version Chris said that BB uses the Canon SDK. It will therefore be slower than those applications that write their own optimised viewing routines.

Have a look around the web for tips about how to optimise your wireless network. If your're using 802.11b or g then I think you'll find even an optimal network is still just a little bit slow.

As for a wired LAN, I sometimes find it slower than wireless! Haven't ever figured out why, but I'm sure something's going on that could be fixed. For that reason if I'm working on photos I always have them on a local drive. USB 2 should be fine too.