SQ streaming directly from router

Surprised that I haven't gotten any responses. Any tech savvy forum participants with some insight on this?

Two things, first the switch that's part of the 'router' may have to share processing power with the other parts of the router and this may case sone disturbance the the evenness of data flow.

Second the 'router' is a much more complex electronic device, increasing the chance of it injecting RF noise onto the cable.

These are two possible reasons just off the top of my head...  there may be others. 

jsaudio posted:

I have read several posts regarding the improved SQ using specific brand and models of switches ie. Cisco. I learned last night that my 272 is connected by a long run of cat-6, directly to my Pakedge router. Had run out of ports from my Pakedge switch. I imagine this is fine since I don't see how a switch can add SQ. Is there something I don't understand?

you can just try, i was like you at the beginning: why add a dedicated switch?   i tried and was surprised: just a poor netgear gs105 switch with common lan cable ( maybe 30GBP in total) but the improvement was there.  Try the cisco 2960 , with good quality lan, and you will have bigger improvement too.

Yes just try it. You may hear a difference or you may not, we are all different, but it's not much money to risk. 

Best

David

Thanks for the replies