No need to apologize SwissBear, I don't see any pollution here. Though perhaps it would be better if I'd ask Rufus or Guillaume to move the 'direct connection' posts to a dedicated topic so that people would feel to be more free to post away.
Nothing meaningful to report yet from my side on the subject. After thinking about it some more I decided to start with the bridge (vs. the routed approach I mentioned earlier). This way I would start more like Romaz suggested and would allow me to go from there.
So last wednesday I tried to establish a bridge but it soon became clear that over time I had tweaked my Windows 10 Pro installation too much for it to do anything but running Roon Server and being a basic file storing NAS. So I decided it would be easiest to start fresh and re-install Windows. I tweaked it mostly the same way (removing all bloat, disabling services not needed, etc. etc.) but not dress things down too much yet on the networking part of Windows.
After everything was done I created the bridge and did some technical tests and soon found that this bridge thing absolutely kills SMB performance. Sending files to the machine was not as good as before (full and stable gigabit speed) but OK but getting files from it was -terribly- slow (~1-3 MB/s). Same was true for upload speeds TO the Internet. After Googling I found that many people noticed similar issues and no 'fix'. Removing the NIC from the bridge immediately restored the performance. So I may test SQ this coming weekend using the bridge but will soon focus on better ways if it proves wortwhile.
Romaz tested and reported no improvements when using the FMC's in his direct path but I was interested if it would negate any improvements so it's good to know it doesn't as this allows me to using a direct fiber path to the SMS-200 and not break the galvanic isolation I currently have.
In a way I really hope to not hear any improvements as it might also 'force' me to seriously reconsider re-instating my previous 'tweaked' music server. I would really prefer the current simple setup of a standard machine in a different room. Though my SR7 PSU would be able to power it at 12V/8A.
Nothing meaningful to report yet from my side on the subject. After thinking about it some more I decided to start with the bridge (vs. the routed approach I mentioned earlier). This way I would start more like Romaz suggested and would allow me to go from there.
So last wednesday I tried to establish a bridge but it soon became clear that over time I had tweaked my Windows 10 Pro installation too much for it to do anything but running Roon Server and being a basic file storing NAS. So I decided it would be easiest to start fresh and re-install Windows. I tweaked it mostly the same way (removing all bloat, disabling services not needed, etc. etc.) but not dress things down too much yet on the networking part of Windows.
After everything was done I created the bridge and did some technical tests and soon found that this bridge thing absolutely kills SMB performance. Sending files to the machine was not as good as before (full and stable gigabit speed) but OK but getting files from it was -terribly- slow (~1-3 MB/s). Same was true for upload speeds TO the Internet. After Googling I found that many people noticed similar issues and no 'fix'. Removing the NIC from the bridge immediately restored the performance. So I may test SQ this coming weekend using the bridge but will soon focus on better ways if it proves wortwhile.
Romaz tested and reported no improvements when using the FMC's in his direct path but I was interested if it would negate any improvements so it's good to know it doesn't as this allows me to using a direct fiber path to the SMS-200 and not break the galvanic isolation I currently have.
In a way I really hope to not hear any improvements as it might also 'force' me to seriously reconsider re-instating my previous 'tweaked' music server. I would really prefer the current simple setup of a standard machine in a different room. Though my SR7 PSU would be able to power it at 12V/8A.
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