12-Feb-2020, 20:28
@Anders Yes, you will need 2 Ethernet cables. Actually, it is possible to make the situation worse by using only one Ethernet cable!
If your master Phantom is the one connected through Ethernet, it will send its signal through Ethernet cable... to the router. Which will then send it to the second Phantom through Wi-Fi. If Wi-Fi is really bad, then you may have a configuration working worse than the default one (with both Phantoms communicating via PLC).
If you master Phantom is the other one, then it will send its signal through Wi-Fi (and then Ethernet) or PLC, as per its network interface setting.
Bottom line: two cables.
@raph972 said in a post it was possible to connect both Phantoms directly with a single, regular cable. But since it works fine for me without any cables at all, in Auto, I never got around to testing that solution, although it may be really really useful if your router is far away from your stereo pair and you don't have any Ethernet socket there. If you test it, I'm sure everybody will be interested to hear the result!
@Snoopy8 : that's some serious tweaking here. I am not sure I will hear the difference you are speaking about, though.
If your master Phantom is the one connected through Ethernet, it will send its signal through Ethernet cable... to the router. Which will then send it to the second Phantom through Wi-Fi. If Wi-Fi is really bad, then you may have a configuration working worse than the default one (with both Phantoms communicating via PLC).
If you master Phantom is the other one, then it will send its signal through Wi-Fi (and then Ethernet) or PLC, as per its network interface setting.
Bottom line: two cables.
@raph972 said in a post it was possible to connect both Phantoms directly with a single, regular cable. But since it works fine for me without any cables at all, in Auto, I never got around to testing that solution, although it may be really really useful if your router is far away from your stereo pair and you don't have any Ethernet socket there. If you test it, I'm sure everybody will be interested to hear the result!
@Snoopy8 : that's some serious tweaking here. I am not sure I will hear the difference you are speaking about, though.
