Home network router question

Get three bids from three different electricians for relocating your RJ45 jack. When you hardwired modem is where you want it then place your boosters.

1. Is running an ethernet wire from my streamer/DAC to the main pod equivalent to direct wiring to the old stand alone modem/router?

If the main pod is hardwired to the modem, then yes, it's basically the same as direct wire. However, if you can, try to wire it directly to the modem.  Direct to the modem is the best.  

2.  If I move the modem and main pod; can I run a cable from the main pod to an ethernet port ( to be installed ) in the cabinet and plug in my streamer?  Will this be nearly equivalent to hard wiring into my old modem/router?

Yes, basically the same as #1.

2 things you should do.....

1. Make sure you use high quality certified C6 cables. Don't need to be fancy, just make sure they are certified. This really makes a difference. I get most of mine from work, but BlueJeans has good cheap certified cables. 

2. Try to have the least number of "hops" from the DAC to the modem. Each hop can/will add jitter, noise, can have lost packets. Most home "mesh" networks use cheap components are mostly crap for anything high end. Hardwire will always beat a mesh network. 

If this was my network, the provided hardware would be given back, then purchase a good modem, hook that modem up to a little router, with a wi-fi point plugged into that. Anything that needs good fast signal, have it plugged into that switch. If you have a quality wi-fi access point, it can almost be as good as wired in places you can't run a wire. 

This is too damn complicated.

I have a have modem hardwired to a router with various Ethernet cables feeding to network switches. I have one audio grade network switch that has an ethernet cable running to my streamer.

It's really that simple. No wireless anywhere, everything hardwired.

emergingsoul

I have a have modem hardwired to a router with various Ethernet cables feeding to network switches. I have one audio grade network switch that has an ethernet cable running to my streamer.

That's exactly what I do, although I'm not sure I'm using an "audio grade" network switch. This system is super simple and rock stable.

 

 

impaler

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10-29-2024 at 11:11am

Question for the IT guys, isn’t a mesh network supported by nodes in a hierarchy with each node connected by WIFI? So if you Ethernet cable to a node, you are still ultimately using an RF signal (WIFI) rather than a direct Ethernet connection to your cable modem, is that correct?

Correct - the nodes communicate with each other wirelessly. However, you’re using Ethernet cable to connect the node to your streamer. This gives you ability to minimize EMI and RFI by moving the node as far away from the streamer as possible.
The data was transferred from the hard-wired gateway node to the node feeding your streamer via wifi and those data packets are intact correct? The data is essentially identical to what your router is pushing?
The data handled by the satellite node is 1 to 1 with the router. You’re now feeding that data thru Ethernet cable to your streamer. So are you still using wifi to feed your streamer in this configuration or is the streamer hard-wired? I’m asking you now…