Oh dear! That sounds horrendous, @devinplombier . I should count myself as lucky. Maybe their workforce here in Portland is better than average. Or i just got lucky. But in any event, the ISP service itself has been flawless ever since; no outages and most importantly, no congestion slow downs (even during World Cup!!) that always use to make TIDAL, Qobuz and Roon loose their collective and respective minds when I had the audio on the Comcast/Xfinity cable-based network.
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@kirkwallace Unfortunately there is no fiber in this area. Given our proximity to Silicon Valley, one would think we would have fiber. Nope. What we have is 1970 era twisted pair wire. It's so noisy, my FM radio in my car quits within a few feet of the sidewalk. I'll review the whole ISP offerings again in the near future. I'm told we will get fiber "in the future", whatever that means. |
@spatialking , too bad about no fiber to your house, but you can still have the “no EMI” benefits of fiber optic inside your house, even if just the “fiber moat” implementations before your streamer. That is, at the risk of telling you something you already know about, Ethernet cable into a fiber media converter (FMC) with a good fiber transducer SFP (like Finisar), good single or multi-mode fiber glass out to another FMC with a matching transducer and then as short as manageable Ethernet cable to your streamer. I do a version of that in front of each of my streamers and in front of my Roon core (which is in a room far away from the systems with the streamers). |
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