A short update:

- No more timeouts since the one in my last post. It happily downloaded 8 at once this morning. I'm more and more convinced it's my issue. Will let you know if it comes back and I have anything useful to add.

- Regarding the starvation reboots, I must unfortunately report that my tablet did it today during a *single feed update*. I was playing something in Pannucci at the time but that's nothing I haven't done before without such problems (in fact, sometimes I think having something else working the CPU can help, and that seems like it might make some sense if it's a starvation issue). The audio stuttered a few times before the eventual reboot. I still think it's very likely that your plan to go serial will stop this from happening most of the time but it looks like in some extreme scenarios it can even happen with one.

Cheers,
Tom.