Marketing Jim. Melco do like to do things differently so ii’ll reserve judgement. I’d take Melco with a ground up engineered solution more seriously over the tweak and repackage a standard switch brigade. I’m sure my Nucleus and 2960 is more than adequate for dealing with those pesky distant Tidal servers though 
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Question. But if you all affirm that for the music a Cisco Catalyst 2960 10/100 is enough and in fact Melco has built a new one both 10/100 and 10/100/1000. I wonder if a user buys a Cisco Catalyst 2960 CG and uses it for Hi Res music streaming is not the same thing? In fact the music files use what they need, that is 10/100, and they use only one tenth of the power of the gb RJ 45 ports?
It it’s just for music then a 100mb switch is enough but I use my switch for other devices not just music as otherwise it’s a waste of electronics so I have a CG. It’s not any different in SQ to the 100mb as I have both or if it’s used solely for music or other devices as well. There.is too much fear around about isolating your Audi network, it’s really not needed if you ask me and my experience. I want GB so I get full use of my internet bandwidth where I need it.
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I also think so, for this reason it is necessary to have a Gigabite at home and do everything, including music
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Jim,
I was juxtaposing “sensible” against the emphasised nonsense.
.sjb
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Have you read the ETHERregen blurb it’s just as bad.
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Why does a specialist manufacturer allow this stuff to be printed in their name?
I would think it harms their reputation more than it helps short term sales…
I keep my music network separate from the rest of my home use devices so I prefer the fast ethernet for reasons Simon outlined previously.
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Do you have a 10/100 type and another gigabite? … I would also like to do this but since I have things in two different rooms it would take two of 10/100 …
I just have the one switch (Catalyst 2960 8TC S) for my QNAP/SU and I have a Muso in the other room that is meshed in with a Airport Express.
The Apple TV is plugged into the Airport extreme (router) and all other devices are on wifi. The Airport Extreme is a switch of sorts so I don’t have a need to put an additional switch on the network for the apple tv and wifi devices. If you’re running a home office or have additional bandwidth needs then this might not work for you.
I also use airport extreme for the WiFi network. My airport express is connected via WiFi to Airport extreme. The Muzzle Qb is connected via WiFi.
If you’re going to spout complete bollocks you may as well really go for it. Some mug somewhere will believe it, especially if the price is high enough.
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I’m using the Airport Express to extend network and I have a BJC cat 6 connecting it to the Muso as I found the Muso buffering more on wifi.
it was ironic Jim…
http over TLS/SSL and or www http and letsencrypt mainly for downloading metadata and calling home for licensing and streaming. It does send out mulitcast traffic for discovery of devices. Its the busiest on my network for these services.
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I see no use of the word “magic.’ Just technical descriptions which make it ‘unique.’ Which it is.
IT switches are optimised for speed and
throughput – not data integrity
Iol
Do you understand what switches do internally with the network packets they receive, or this a matter of just re-quoting Melco’s marketing position?
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Power supplies are external to the S100
giving good isolation and allowing for future
upgrade to external linear power supplies.
So it really is an upselling device as well. You won’t get the alleged best without forking out even more.
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