(27-Feb-2017, 21:53)baconbrain Wrote: Hi Antonie,
I realize that some water has flown under the bridge (not the network one ) since this post, but thought I should report back to close the loop.
Since the upgrade of Roon to 1.3, I have tried numerous constellations of using the mR as a Roon Ready device with Roon upsampling versus the mR as an NAA device while upsampling via HQPlayer. For me, the later has turned out to be clearly the preferred choice. In particular when connecting the mR directly to my music pc in bridged mode.
In reference to your suggestions above, I did have to do a bit of tweaking before it really worked right with my system. Firstly, the mR will not be recognized as an NAA by HQplayer if one does not assign an IP Address in a seperate subnet to the 2nd NIC as proposed by Clipper in the CA Forum. Secondly, enabling promiscuous mode on my USB to Ethernet adapter had no effect when attempting to improve the overall throughput of the system. What surprisingly fixed the throughput issue was just adding my on-board Wifi controller to the bridge in a disconnected state. This was also recommended by another member in the CA Forum. For me this last step made absolutely no sense, but worked! Throughput is back to normal and the sound is sooooo good.
This tweak together with the HQPlayer and mR in my system has really done something magical. Honestly, one of the top five changes I believe to have made in my setup to-date.
BB
PS: Ditched my Cisco Switch and picked up a Netgear. Life is easier now...
Who's Antonie?
If there's one thing I've learned from this bridging thing on Windows is that it is incredibly buggy /unpredictable. Results depend much on the hardware used too it seems without any clear indicators as to the why's. The CA thread and your and my issues prove that easily too. On OS X seems to work better. I myself gave up after several hours and switched to the routed setup I detailed earlier. And though the bridge setup did work I wasn't satisfied with the performance. With the routed setup I had to give up Airplay and if I used HQPlayer it wouldn't work in this setup either but I wasn't willing to take the performance hit since the machine I use is also a NAS. (this may change, see my previous post )
Thanks for the update. I'm very glad you persisted and got it working! It's very weird, since the settings of the second NIC are discarded once the bridge is formed so no idea why that works, must be part of the buggyness. Same goes for the WiFi adapter that's not used, just part of the bridge while doing nothing. I may try it later too, just for "fun" and it would be nice if if fixes the performance issues. Plus it would re-enable me to use Airplay (and thus Spotify) again. I read coming month SOTM is going to update the old and abandoned Shairport 1.0 software with a newer, maintained spin-off which improves SQ.
Enjoy!
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