Mrpseudonym Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Having followed the naim forum on this topic for a while I finally took the plunge and moved all audio components off a netgear GS724t onto a cisco catalyst 2960. Best $150 I ever spent. A surprising noticeable improvement https://community.naimaudio.com/t/to-switch-or-not-to-switch/567 More info here also https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/321/ Don’t shoot the messenger, I didn’t believe it either..until I did it. Highly recommended. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calis Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 where is your music source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrpseudonym Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 (edited) Source is tidal, and ripped CDs on a Nuc running Roon ROCK streaming to a Sotm sms-200 ultra. Sotm and Nuc are located in hifi rack with amp and are the only devices connected to the cisco switch, the rest of the house is off the netgear. Edited June 29, 2019 by Mrpseudonym Clarity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveo888 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Can you post a link on where you bought it? I can't seem to find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrpseudonym Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 Bought off ebay. Just checked there are some still around, although not from the seller I bought from. You want one of the white boxed ones, not the blue/green. There are quite a few variants. The number of uplink ports (2 or 4) doesn’t matter, but I went with a 10/100 model rather than gigabit as it was the one on the naim forum that everyone had success with. If you search ebay for this one Cisco WS-C2960C-8TC ... it will do the job. let me know how you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikhuong Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 The C2960c-8tc is fanless and seems more attractive. How quiet is yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrpseudonym Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 That is the one I have. here is the comparison table https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/catalyst-2960-c-series-switches/models-comparison.html#2960 I would think that any without PoE would be ok, and as I said earlier I stuck with 10/100 (despite having a gigabit network). Throughput has been fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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