MrSinatra;469933 Wrote: > so measure it with testing software, leave it for a few days testing, > whatever; however in my exp, if it works its fine. its something the OP > could try, if its no good, it was worth a try.
I'm not trying to be argumentative on this and it might work okay in practice. But I don't think measuring it with testing software and leaving for a few days is a very straight-forward proposition. You may have the expertise and tools to verify this kind of solution but I think it's beyond most home network users. What software will you use and how will you know it's working okay and that you've simulated the situations likely to cause issues? You're running equipment outside of its specs. Maximum cable length and such are not arbitrary numbers. They are calculated based on physical characteristics of the hardware as well as timing requirements of the protocol algorithms. Many different network pieces (likely from different vendors) are all designed with these basic constraints in mind. So once you've gone beyond whatever safety margins are built into the specs you don't really know anymore when things can be expected to work correctly or not. Certain protocol traffic patterns might cause problematic timings while other use cases may run perfectly fine. Anyway, it certainly something that can be tried and may work but there's a certain comfort in running things in a configuration that hardware manufactures are compelled to support. -Jeff -- jdoering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jdoering's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17482 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
