Hi there,
I have the following setup: Router (AVM Fritzbox 7490 and AVM repeater 3000, that has 2 LAN connection ports). LAN-connected with the Repeater is a windows PC with the roon core that currently serves a DAC via a USB-cable. Repeater and router communicate via WLAN.
The DAC however is unrepaireable and I like to replace ist by an streamer (Lindemann Souce II). The streamer will by connected to the repater via LAN-cable as it does not have a USB-port for music input.
My question: does roon send the music data packages directly via LAN → repeater → LAN → streamer or will data packages be transferred via the router?
If your using a switch then local ports on same switch would route to each other, the router just sends the instructions. What do you mean by repeater here never heard of lan repeater?
This is basic networking stuff. Some aspects of networking (such as IP address allocation by DHCP) involve the router.
However, device to device traffic goes by the shortest allowed route.
In the case that you are imagining, because both the Roon Server and the streamer would be connected to the same switch (actually the repeater in your case), the streaming traffic will just go Server → Repeater → Streamer. This traffic will not be seen by any other device connected to the repeater (either wired or by WiFi) and will not utilise any WiFi bandwidth.
Of course, If streaming from Tidal/Qobuz/KKBox, then the streaming service stream going to the Roon server will use WiFi.
Oh, I was not precisely enough: it is in fact a WLAN repeater with 2 LAN ports on board for connection of close-by devices to the repeater via a LAN-cable.
Thanks, that answers my question! …and will be great as then music data package traffic from roon to the streamer will go directly via LAN i.e. as fast as possible.
And yes, I am aware that data traffic from the Qobuz/Tidal/etc. server to Roon has to use the WLAN connection between the router and the repeater as the internet is needed for it.