Roon seems to be very greedy with my bandwidth & system resources

[Geoff_Coupe]

I’d second @DaveN 's recommendation, not only because it has more ports, but because it is an unmanaged switch. The Netgear GS305E is a managed switch (the “E” suffix designates this).

Managed switches have a tendency to cause problems unless you know exactly how to use them. See:

Roon Networking Best Practices (roonlabs.com)

PS - I speak from bitter experience…

Network Bizarreness with a TP-Link SG108e Switch

For years, I’ve had a cheapo 1 Gbit network switch (a Konig CMP-EHUB52) at the hub of our home network. Whilst the network, and Roon in particular, has been running faultlessly, I thought I’d swap it out for a more modern switch, with simple management features. I bought a TP-Link SG108e, which has had good reviews. I swapped the switches, and immediately Roon started giving lots of problems. Sub-second dropouts and skipping in playback. Sometimes at the end of a track, Roon reported difficulty…