For me, emptool reports between 700Kbytes/sec and 1Mbyte/sec (occasionally, late at night when the Ethernet switch is otherwise idle).

Same here. And if anyone can figure out why it varies so wildly (from 700-950Kbytes/sec) from one tune to the next, I'd be very interested. Especially if it led to a technique for always getting the 950 value.

Using tar and netcat to hose a lot of fids onto a car player gave me 700Kbytes/sec on average. It's thus possible that the 950 value was due to buffers filling that had drained slightly between songs, and doesn't represent a sustainable rate.

Peter