Haha, no offence taken Phil, but I am a bit peeved. I was thinking about kicking off a thread about networking issues in general, but you have pipped me at the post and have now made many of the points I was going to make there. I probably still will, but since you’ve “stolen” much of what I was going to say I will have to focus on other areas!
I totally see where you are coming from and trust me, the dangers of leading unsophisticated users into sophisticated solutions is certainly not lost on me. I have installed networks at friends’ houses as well as businesses like offices, warehouses and even a subterranean gym (so no mobile phone coverage). If they don’t become “self-playing pianos” all the problems land back in my lap extremely quickly!
Haha, I hear you, but I have a sneaky suspicion that this is more what you actually need. As a dCS support engineer what you need is the an environment with all possible variables removed from the equation so you can determine if the dCS kit is actually misbehaving or if the problem is, as I suspect it is 99% of the time, elsewhere. However this may or may not be the best solution for a given user, once one looks beyond a troubleshooting scenario. Simplicity is indeed a virtue, but it is not the answer for everything. You may disagree, but I’ll lay out my thinking in another thread and you can take issue with me there if you want to!
guilty as charged. But I not have taken the path I have taken solely because I am a network geek. Most of the choices in my network have been about domain segregation (both physical and logical), i.e. separating people and things, real-time and non-real time traffic, and things that could potentially do or be used to do harm from the things that I really care about. I honestly don’t think some people reflect on how dependent they have become on their home networks, how much of what they treasure (family photos, financial information, sensitive documents, not to mention large music collections) are accessible from them, nor realise how open they are to misuse or attack (intentional or inadvertent) and how much that could ruin their day.
Snap. My network is all Ubiquiti and have used Ubiquiti in all my customer projects. I have worked with Cisco and Meraki equipment as well and have had all sorts of the usual consumer gear at home through the years but the Ubiquiti is my current choice, for work and play.
For readability I have cut out a huge swath here because I have nothing to add or comment.
Amen to all of that. Agree 100%.
Haha. …and any other “audiophile” product categories not served by dCS…
No, only joking. That’s fine, I promise not to bait you. And I agree, if we let the discussion drift off in that direction the fireworks will start, the thread will crash and burn and we’ll never get folks back to a polite discourse about basic networking.
If you and I ever get to meet maybe we can sit down together with some test instruments and duke that one out in private! 