Just curious, not trying to solve any problem I'm experiencing.
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What happens if I string an Ethernet cable between my stereo-paired PLAY:1s?
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I have a pair of PLAY:1s in a stereo pair. Both connect to SonosNet via a BOOST. What happens if I directly connect the two speakers with an Ethernet cable? Will one of the speakers receive its communication over the wire, while the other talks to the BOOST wirelessly?
Just curious, not trying to solve any problem I'm experiencing.
Just curious, not trying to solve any problem I'm experiencing.
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'Signal strength'? It's wired!!! It will be delivering 100Mbps.
Yes, but the question was in the context of what that is if it was used as a marker for how good the signal strength is if the matrix says it is 70 as an example, for a wireless signal. Is that 70% as good as that
from a wired connection? Or am I doing apples v oranges?
from a wired connection? Or am I doing apples v oranges?
Definitely.
Bandwidth and latency might be common external parameters with which to compare wired and wireless media. But the signal strength figure is just one small part of the equation. How wide is the channel? What encoding scheme does it use? What's its error rate due to interference? Etc. Etc.
A case sort of in point: As I noted in an earlier post, a PLAY:1 literally underneath a BOOST (signal 96) ostensibly couldn't 'hear' it because it was being 'deafened' by it.
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