The Shunyata Research OMEGA-X-Ethernet Cable

A CAT6A, CAT7, or CAT8 cable that meets spec is already operating with enormous bandwidth margins for audio streaming

Don't have to read far to uncover the first major misconception.

Bandwidth margins are absolutely irrelevant.  Ethernet packets are always transmitted at full Ethernet speed.  These days, the wires used are unshielded twisted pairs.

Error detection and retransmission take place at higher protocol levels than Ethernet and must be implemented at the endpoints.  Ethernet itself is unreliable.

Streaming is the word coined by the data transmission industry to indicate re-transmission is dropped in favour of timeliness.  In Internet terms, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) rather than Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), both of which run under Internet Protocol (IP).

USB comprises four families of technology with some level of backward compatibility.  The number of pins has increased from four to twenty-four.  USB has always offered a streaming mode which does not correct errors.

If you don't know exactly what protocol stacks your devices use, don't assume TCP/IP will be delivering pristine data!

@richardbrand 

With all due respect...

You’re taking what I said out of context and writing your own interpretations of what ethernet is.

Please study a real Cisco textbook and please stop stringing words together.

If what you were saying were true, then banking systems around the world would require constant maintenance, the internet as we know it would too, and the hardware, not the cables makes the biggest difference in a data center, a server room or where data warehousing takes place. The cables need to be up for the task and match the needs of what the hardware is being used for.

Ethernet is very robust today. We are not in the days of dial up connections anymore. 

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What does each letter stand for? - Hint, it’s called the OSI model.

Look it up. It seems you used an AI agent to string together your response.

Once you understand the OSI model and how it actually works, then ethernet is not such a mystery anymore.

@frank009 

If only the Internet used the OSI model.  It does not.  Look it up.

@richardbrand 

From you and one other gentleman, it seems the best either of you can do is write false statements and try to prove me wrong, hoping that others don’t do research on the babble you write as statements, which are not factual. Henceforth, I would appear wrong to the majority of other members and you get some kind of sick joy out of that.

OSI and TCP/IP Model - GeeksforGeeks

Understand how they work together. The OSI model is crucial. 

Please don’t post any more about subjects you do not understand. 

Peace.

@richardbrand

It is a mystery why you periodically feel compelled to spout nonsense about Internet like some kind of Belgian town square carillon.

We all know you are more than capable of manifesting intelligence, and in fact many of your posts are a delight to read. Yet here you are again braying to the moon about UDP, which is not, never was, and never will be used in audio streaming, and therefore is utterly irrelevant.

However, if you're streaming the World Cup? Yes UDP. But audio? No.