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Despite the warnings about the desirability of wired ethernet connections, last year when we were living in rented accommodation while our home was being refurbished I established a fully wireless Sooloos system. It worked flawlessly (don't know if the same would be true of Roon). The key to getting it working properly was to have the Sooloos system more or less isolated from the main router by using a very simple unmanaged switch into which the main Sooloos bits plugged in and only one connection to the router (the uplink of the switch). Actually, the only things plugged into the switch (apart from the single link to the router) was the anchor disc of a 5 disc BT Wholehome mesh wireless system and the Sooloos core (a QNAP NAS). The other Sooloos bits (3 C10s, a 218 and two MS200s) were all wirelessly connected using some quite elderly Belkin ethernet bridges. I tried all sorts of layouts previously but only when I decided to put a cheap 5 port switch I had lying around into the configuration did it work. I can't explain why - it just did.

In contrast, I now have a largely wired system (back in our home). It uses a Netgear 24 port switch (and they are not that simple). It didn't work properly with Sooloos or Roon initially. Only when the settings on the switch were changed from the defaults (principally affecting multicast), guided as I was by a magnificent Hiker who is a network expert, did the wired system work properly!