Re: [LAU] Jamming over WiFi?

Hi all, I am working on a project in which I want 5 musicians to walk around a building and play. They will carry netbooks (mics and headphones) and their signals will be sent to a concert hall where it will be broadcasted. Additionally, a "conductor" will decide which individual stream will every one of those 5 musicians listen to. So I need a 2-way communication on each netbook and 5 in and 5 out on the server. The server will be wired. I tried oggcasting but latencies were just unacceptable (10-20 seconds) so I started experimenting with jack.udp. I am getting very promising results with one machine on a wired LAN and the other over WiFi but I get a lot lost packets. I do not mind to loose some quality and some stuttering and I don't mind some latency (although jack wants to pump everything in real time) but the netbook that's on WiFi has a lot of trouble even getting the audio data out or reliably bringing it in, even in areas where WiFi signal is very strong. I also tried NetJack but I cannot even establish a master/slave relationship between 2 machines (if one is on a WiFi). Perhaps it demands a reliable bandwidth? I am not sure, I did not spend much time with it. If anyone has any ideas or experience with something like this I would appreciate any input. I tried ninjam today but somehow client refuses to talk to alsa drivers, I will be investigating that in hope that it will perform better than ices2+pd. Thanks.