Network engineer here. Broadcast is never a good idea for this. You actually generate more traffic than with unicast, because you force the switch to forward the frame to all ports and all devices to receive the frame, look into the packet and discard what is not for them. Also if you need to have low jitter and for the packet delivery to be reliable, I would stay away from WiFi and use cables.
El lun, 15 dic 2025 a las 14:15, Peter P. (<[email protected]>) escribió: > * Simon Iten <[email protected]> [2025-12-15 12:37]: > > Thanks for this. > > > > Still wondering what is best practice actually in a Network/WIFI > situation, if I only have ArtNet devices in a network would it not be more > efficient to just send everything via the broadcast address? Less traffic, > less latency I would assume. (Assuming that there is some overlap in DMX > data that affects more than one device.. > > > > Or is there an advantage in sending only to the device that needs the > data? Parsing at the receiver end for example, which could take longer if > all the data is sent to all devices… > > No experience with artnet here, but one advantage of broadcasting is > that the sender does not need to know, nor worry, about the addresses > and presenece of the receivers on the network. > > One disadvantage of broadcasting is that the sender does not necessarily > know about the addresses and presenece of the receivers unless you > implement some pinging for diagnostics. > > :) > > I would not worry about parsing and associated CPU consumption until > this problem actually arises. > > best, P > > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/2EGLXEW6F44D2DGHDBYXU2LUWDAU5NHH/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/
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