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Two old comments from Brian at Roon:

In other words, you need to connect everything into a switch (either the same switch or two "good" switches connected to each other via Ethernet) that you know works. This affects both playback and discovery. Frankly, plugging into a router, which is doing a lot more than a switch, may be asking for trouble with Meridian Sooloos gear.

In other words, not recommended. And no guarantee whatsoever that your new powerline gear will work if your old powerline gear does.

Very likely that your NAS is struggling. Running on a PC or Mac or NUC tends to be very stable.

Or, replace your NAS with a NUC directly connected to your audio system.

An official fanless Intel NUC arrives by end of this March.

I'd agree. My Antipodes is largely rock solid with the occasional drop of the ID41 card (although this is dependant on the version of Roon, as some seem more reliable than others).

Hey chief. Yes I have and it’s the same. iMac as Core for a while and just the same. Different room. Different router. Etc.

Hope
You’re well sir.

8 core i7 QNAP TS871 with 16G of RAM.

It’s half asleep most of the time it’s doing such little work.

Same with iMac core.

How are all the devices connected, any Devolo plugs, WiFi connections, are you connecting devices to your router or to a network switch or both?

Insert a simple unmanaged network switch into the chain as per Joel's earlier suggestion.

I'm sure that Roon has gotten bigger and bigger over five years. The TS670Pro is a 3rd gen i3, 7 years old, dual core. My Roon is running on an AMD2700 8 core/16 thread machine with 32GB and an NVME SSD.

Also, how much would it cost to wire the house with CAT6? 2000UKP tops? Nothing beats wired, not even expensive professional routers.

Everything now connected directly with Ethernet cables.

Done - no difference.

It's all wired...