Earthnet cable

Yes, just give it a wired Ethernet connection, either directly to your router, or via a switch. It will then be visible on your network to both wired and wireless devices.

ngene posted:

I have a question about Unitiserve. Since it isn't wireless and since i have never used wired before this will sound like a noob question. I will need to connect the cable to the Unitiserve and connect it to the Yellow port in my router. Is this correct?

it is better to connect your serve to a different switch, like netgear, dlink, and connect this switch to the router. The sound will be much better. ( switches from 20GBP...and not cheap lan cable if possible, meicord one( 60GBP/1m) is very good...). 

Sorry you lost me here. I have a Wireless router modem. But you are saying i should get a netgear so do i need to get another router modem and connect this to my current modem

So where does the earth net cable from the Unitiserve go. Does it go in to the current router or the Netgear router?

For connectivity, you can just connect the US into your broadband router's Ethernet port. It is felt by a lot of posters here that an intermediate switch improves sound quality, in which case buy a cheap switch, connect  the US to it and it to the router. It isn't necessary to have the switch.

Out of interest, do you have Naim streamer as well? If you do, it makes sense if possible to wire both it and the Serve to a switch, and then to connect the switch to the router. But if you intend to use a wireless connection for the streamer, you can simply connect the Serve to your existing router. 

No i dont have the streamer. Lol i dont even have the Untitserve yet. I am just getting prepared for it for when it is delivered. As for the sound quality this would be from the internet when streaming and not from your own music collection.

A 'switch' in this context is like a multi-way network adapter, allowing several peripherals to connect together. IN this case a switch near the hifi would connect the US and a streamer together, and to another cable running to the internet router. But if the internet router has more than one network connector free then the US and streamer can simply connect to that -the benefit of a local switch is that it keeps the music streaming between store and streamer seperate from other network traffic.

Some people say that expensive network cables give a better sound, ditto switches, and their power supplies. Not everyone is convinced. It may depend in part on anything else on your network or local RFI sources etc. I suggest set it up with basic stuff, simply choosing moderately decent quality cables made for computing, not costing many £ per m., and once you're up and running you could consider trying other cabkes etc in the fulness of time.

The other argument for using a switch rather than connecting via the wireless hub is not all are able to manage the data stream as a true switch,  some do but some don't & as a result performance for high density traffic is sub-par.   A switch sends & receives simultaneously & communicates only with the devices they are programmed for.    

ngene posted:

No i dont have the streamer. Lol i dont even have the Untitserve yet. I am just getting prepared for it for when it is delivered. As for the sound quality this would be from the internet when streaming and not from your own music collection.

I'm confused. What do you intend to use the unitiserve for? 

Hungryhalibut posted:

ngene posted:

No i dont have the streamer. Lol i dont even have the Untitserve yet. I am just getting prepared for it for when it is delivered. As for the sound quality this would be from the internet when streaming and not from your own music collection.

I'm confused. What do you intend to use the unitiserve for? 

i understood it is for streaming on tidal or other streaming site....not streaming local music, so why unitserve?  i am confused...

Confused  ???,  me too 

ngene posted:

No i dont have the streamer. Lol i dont even have the Untitserve yet. I am just getting prepared for it for when it is delivered. As for the sound quality this would be from the internet when streaming and not from your own music collection.

you need a dac to your unitserve, in spdif, or a streaming dac like nd5xs, ndx , uniqute( connection by lan cables to a switch).  

Hungryhalibut posted:

ngene posted:

No i dont have the streamer. Lol i dont even have the Untitserve yet. I am just getting prepared for it for when it is delivered. As for the sound quality this would be from the internet when streaming and not from your own music collection.

I'm confused. What do you intend to use the unitiserve for? 

Ripping and storage of music.

ngene posted:

Sorry you lost me here. I have a Wireless router modem. But you are saying i should get a netgear so do i need to get another router modem and connect this to my current modem

This forum has recently been inundated by discussions of network tweaks, some of which might help if you find your network to be unreliable, and others which might provide subtle tweaks to sound quality. I would suggest that to get up and running, if you're going to buy a Unitiserve and a streamer, you simply connect them both to your router with a regular Cat5e Ethernet cable.

The Netgear device that was suggested is a switch rather than a modem/router, such as the GS105. If your router doesn't handle data well, this may be worth adding, but you may find it unnecessary. It costs virtually nothing to set all this up - I would do that first, and leave the potentially endless treaks for later if you feel the need.