Hi, i use a cisco 2960 connected to a netgear router by 1m of om2. I then have 10m cat 6 from the cisco i to my innuos streamer. I wish to replace the 10m cat cable with om2 fiber as the
cable has to run under a rug and the fiber cable is a lot thinner.
Is there any benefit in adding another cisco or even a sonore optical module, so the chain would be - netgear - om2 cisco - om2 cisco/sonore - 1m cat 6 to streamer. Or just relocate existing cisco?
Regards
What’s wrong with fiber? What you’re suggesting seems to be a more complex solution than running the fiber under the carpet like the op suggested.
@lazyscott I would just use a second switch at the other end, but then again I’m not much of a believer in an audible difference between ethernet cables and/or switches.
Not really, i am simply running the cable from one side of the room to the other. We were going to get new flooring (carpet) so i had planned to run the cable underneath (and still will when that happens). So was thinking that thin fiber cable might be less obtrusive even if bright orange!
I run fibre into a 2960 from a cheap TLink fmc. This isolates the 2960 from the rest of the home network. The 2960 is only used for music.
Works a treat for me and no intention / need to tweak any further.
This is what I do in the office, 15 feet of fiber under carpet, otherwise it would be 35 feet of rj45 around the outer perimeter from a closet about 5 feet across from the DAC. Fiber is so much easier to hide, though there is flat rj45 out there. A second 2690 would work fine, though the oM (deluxe) might sound subtly better.
My setup is a 2960 with two fiber outs - one goes multimode to a 10gtek FMC in the office (as above); the other SFP goes multimode to an oM, then short BJC Cat 6a to another oM, then single mode fiber to an opticalRendu. Three fiber bridges for the main room - plenty of isolation!
I found the 10gtek FMC (a freebie when I bought a demo oR from Sonore) to sound better than the TP-Link 200 I was using. The oM’s are better than both, but it’s subtle and an etherRegen is probably a better investment, but it wasn’t out when I bought the oM bridge.