EtherREGEN: The long development thread. [Some Gen2 dev. pics and update starting on page 92.]

[Ricardo007]

On 6/3/2019 at 1:04 AM, JohnSwenson said:

If you have the RJ45 on the B side (the single jack) connected to a streamer, what you do on the A side shouldn't matter. Thus coming into the A side with optical shouldn't make any difference. If you already have an optical network connection, use the optical input. The other use is if you have a renderer with an optical input you can use the EtherRegen the other way around and connect the optical port to the renderer  and the single RJ45 to the network.

 

John S.

Can the use of a high end gaming router like this one Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR700 contribute to a better SQ when used in connection with ether regen?

I see 2 features in particular:

- 10 Gigabit LAN SFP+ Port

- Seven 1-Gigabit Ethernet Ports

(6 LAN + 1 WAN) Aggregate two ports when connecting to compatible switch* to get even more wired ports

[Ricardo007]

Two questions to Alex Super Duper DAD (like me):

you have etherregen in your system (soon hopefully) but you want to upgrade your router (the next frontier...)

high end routers have features like:

- 10Gb SFP+ ports: can this be used in association with Etherregen and how? what benefits if any...

- link aggregation of 2 rj45 ports doubling transmission speed: is Etherregen compatible with this?

Richard

[Ricardo007]

@Superdad @JohnSwenson

I have ISP contract for 200Mbps. My ISP integrated modemrouterswitch is connected to a cisco 2960 switch and from theres to my network audio. I plan to buy etherregen and add it after the cisco.

Now my question is the following:

By using etherchannel i can aggregate 2 100mbps copper ports for higher speed 200mbps to the etheregen side A. For streaming service use would that be in theory better?

[Ricardo007]

3 hours ago, Superdad said:

 

The sophisticated clocking system of the EtherREGEN involves far more than just the XO

XO?

[Ricardo007]

On 8/14/2019 at 4:29 PM, lmitche said:

interrupt processing noise

@imitche

What are u calling "interrupt" source ?  What is cause of thisnoise ? 

[Ricardo007]

@Superdad

Any picture of the connector on B side available please?

I need to order a short solid core lan cable so I want orientation of the rj45 plugs right...

BTW any rj45 adapter foreseen like what you did for connecting iso regen to dac?

DC barrel is 2.1mm right?

[Ricardo007]

7 hours ago, LowMidHigh said:

John S. mentions the cables to and from the ER. If I recall correctly, CAT6, but nothing special,. it shouldn't be grounded from the ER to the target (meaning, avoid metallic RJ45).

Can somebody provide reference to John Swenson post where the issue of no metal connector or if metal then no connection to shield is tackled?

[Ricardo007]

7 hours ago, vortecjr said:

We feel that the optical SFP is a much cleaner design overall.

@vortecjr

If I remember right you planned to test this rj45 sfp cable, if u did how did it compare soundwise to a basic or gotham copper lan cable?

[Ricardo007]

Better to habe 3 dedicated switches linked to each server nas streamer on one side all sws connected to a router non wireless like ubiquti edgerouter 6p .

One of the switch is etherregen for streamer. 2 other cheap cheap pro cisco 2960. Use sfp port on router reconfigured as lan port to link with etherregen with startech 80km sfp module monomode fiber

See i have my plan...

[Ricardo007]

5 hours ago, stevebythebay said:

At least one port on one of the switches needs to be wired to a WiFi access point, be it traditional router or mesh network router.  In my simple setup my current Cisco switch has 3 wires: one to a Roon software app server, another to the downstream DAC related device (an upsampler) and the third wired to an Eero mesh WiFi access point.  Others may also wire up a NAS to provide the music files to the player, or even run the Roon or other player within the NAS device.  My files are living on a USB attached drive connected to the Roon server.  As you indicate, many need to access their music player via an app running on an iphone/tablet/computer via WiFi.

Yes indeed i have another routed port on the router for a cisco switch with a ubiquity unifi AC pro AP which i desactivate when listening music

[Ricardo007]

Hello

Can you provide reference to these useful device ?