I get occasional drop outs while streaming hi res music over ethernet. My home network has a lot of traffic - with everyone's idevices, skyping, our ip phones, etc. On the other hand, I have a pretty robust switch (Cisco SG300). So, I'm surprised that I'm getting the drop outs. The ethernet cable in the wall (subject of much recent discussion) is CAT6 installed by a very good electrician.
- Do you think its the NAS (actually a VortexBox) rather than the network?
- replace all the patch cables?
- Does it make sense to create a VLAN for the NAS and Streamer? I'm at the edge of my knowledge here, as the NAS, Streamer and the wireless hub would need to be on the same "music" VLAN. However, I'd also like the wireless hub on the default VLAN for regular traffic.
Many thanks
Posted on: 13 September 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk
To be honest I'd be suprised if its your network, as even if 192/24 in the grand scheme of things is not much data for wired Ethernet at 100Mbps.. Especially when switched on duplex links.
I would suspect your NAS. Try streaming from a PC or MAC with a local hidef file and see if you get dropouts still.
No on a home LAN if you have no need to route between different local networks then you don't need VLANs
Simon
Posted on: 13 September 2013 by mutterback
Many thanks for the feedback.
Glad to hear the VLAN isn't necessary.... Still amazing how much data 4 people in a house burn through these days.
Posted on: 13 September 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk
Yep a LAN is different from a WAN in that respect. A LAN subnet will have lots of status, discovery and broadcast information on it as local applications communicate and update statuses with each other. This will show up as a lot of low throughput activity. (just look at your switch port LEDs blinking when you are doing 'nothing'. A LAN subnet is almost like a computer bus. Where as a WAN (including broadband Internet) is more about data transfer with far less status update information.
Simon
