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I have definitely run into "smart" unmanaged switches or those with "convienient web interface" that were an immediate problem. I've also come to like any dmx-gateway that includes a second eth port and eliminates the need for a separate switch in many cases. Many Thanks

Thanks Ronald, Everything you say makes sense to me and has been my understanding for years, and yet empirically I get other results. I guess I need to start looking closer at the real traffic with wireshark or similar and see what else I can learn. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply. I've seen fixtures on a rig connected via dmx to eth-dmx gateways that seem to be getting random,noisy data(maybe bitwize offset?) and replacing consumer switches with the CISCO's will solve the problem. I've seen this with many types of fixtures as well as laggy...

Hi all, I've learned through trial and error that Cisco SG-110D-X switches solve problems when they replace Netgear/TP-Link or any and all others. This is all well and good, but I would like to better understand why. I'm working exclusively with ETC/EOS and sACN with only unmanaged switches and...