I use Thomann ssSnake and StudioHub devices but I have not used any that are DB25 <-> RJ45 because I need the breakouts.
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When we (me/wife/dog) had our new home built in 2008, I had 48 runs of cat 5E laid...so I have a structured wiring layout where all runs terminate in a patch panel in my office.
This was needed as I was a home based enterprise software developer with twenty unix/linux servers that I used for dev/test and compilations (aix, hpux, solaris, redhat, ubuntu, suse etc). I was a global tech lead (retired in 2020) for a computer company with 400,000+ employees worldwide to frame what "enterprise software" means. Also note that the software developed was predicated on the use of tcp/ip sockets so I have some understanding of tcp/ip, ethernet and networking.
Testing involved destructive use of database images (oracle, db2, sybase, informix, teradata, postgres, mysql etc) and so I would need to copy between servers > 100gb to refresh a database image.
With servers in different zones in the house (dev/test/prod/backup), this meant the copies occurred over long runs of cat 5e (say 30m inbound, 30m outbound via my patch panel and through an enterprise switch) and I would get (still do) 110-112 MBYTES of data per second (i.e. the max a 1000mbit ethernet card can support).
Note the above description is not a "look at me" thing but to note that my use of ethernet in my home was critical/fundamental to my job (and my customers) and not for a non-critical thing like home audio.
I raise this (long) description because stupid/gullible people believe CAT6/CAT7/CAT8, for example, provide some advantage in a home situation. No home audio gear needs 10gbit/sec throughput... plain old 1gbit cat 5E has 50 to 100 times the throughput needed (as per my real world example above) for an audio stream.
These stupid/gullible people might also believe that CAT7/CAT8 cables have some magic sauce that reduces noise and while this can be true in an ENTERPISE situation (depends on the CAT topology/terminations used), plugging in a CAT8 cable into a 1gbit ethernet port (I.e. what consumer level gear has in it) won't magically impart reduced noise... this is without discussing the fact that even lower spec ethernet cabling/transceivers are designed/implemented with robust noise reduction.
And lets not get into why stupid/gullible people believe that a fancy $$$$$ reclocking network switch is needed for a non-serial, async transfer protocol based on a store and forward topology (and where every network device in the chain reclocks the packets anyway)
If you are paranoid, spend less than $100 on a pair of TPLINK MC200 media convertors (and an optical fibre cable) placed in front of your DAC/streamer and be done.
Nurse...Nurse,,, where are my pills!!!
Peter
PS. In the decades prior to this home build, me and the servers lived "happily" together in a large room in the old house so I was very happy they were given special rooms away from me!!!
And as the years went on, servers supporting say DG/UX and Sequent Dynix/PTX would be retired as well as newer hardware introduced to support current versions of Unix.
This was needed as I was a home based enterprise software developer with twenty unix/linux servers that I used for dev/test and compilations (aix, hpux, solaris, redhat, ubuntu, suse etc). I was a global tech lead (retired in 2020) for a computer company with 400,000+ employees worldwide to frame what "enterprise software" means. Also note that the software developed was predicated on the use of tcp/ip sockets so I have some understanding of tcp/ip, ethernet and networking.
Testing involved destructive use of database images (oracle, db2, sybase, informix, teradata, postgres, mysql etc) and so I would need to copy between servers > 100gb to refresh a database image.
With servers in different zones in the house (dev/test/prod/backup), this meant the copies occurred over long runs of cat 5e (say 30m inbound, 30m outbound via my patch panel and through an enterprise switch) and I would get (still do) 110-112 MBYTES of data per second (i.e. the max a 1000mbit ethernet card can support).
Note the above description is not a "look at me" thing but to note that my use of ethernet in my home was critical/fundamental to my job (and my customers) and not for a non-critical thing like home audio.
I raise this (long) description because stupid/gullible people believe CAT6/CAT7/CAT8, for example, provide some advantage in a home situation. No home audio gear needs 10gbit/sec throughput... plain old 1gbit cat 5E has 50 to 100 times the throughput needed (as per my real world example above) for an audio stream.
These stupid/gullible people might also believe that CAT7/CAT8 cables have some magic sauce that reduces noise and while this can be true in an ENTERPISE situation (depends on the CAT topology/terminations used), plugging in a CAT8 cable into a 1gbit ethernet port (I.e. what consumer level gear has in it) won't magically impart reduced noise... this is without discussing the fact that even lower spec ethernet cabling/transceivers are designed/implemented with robust noise reduction.
And lets not get into why stupid/gullible people believe that a fancy $$$$$ reclocking network switch is needed for a non-serial, async transfer protocol based on a store and forward topology (and where every network device in the chain reclocks the packets anyway)
If you are paranoid, spend less than $100 on a pair of TPLINK MC200 media convertors (and an optical fibre cable) placed in front of your DAC/streamer and be done.
Nurse...Nurse,,, where are my pills!!!
Peter
PS. In the decades prior to this home build, me and the servers lived "happily" together in a large room in the old house so I was very happy they were given special rooms away from me!!!
And as the years went on, servers supporting say DG/UX and Sequent Dynix/PTX would be retired as well as newer hardware introduced to support current versions of Unix.
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