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    Recommendations When Purchasing A Router?

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    • Juriaan
      Juriaan Tech Staff last edited by

      Hi there,


      A few things that are important :

      1. Make sure that you buy a Router that can do both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Arduino stuff mainly can't do 5Ghz at times..
      2. Buy a Router with a Gigabit switch. If you ever wish to connect your network to let's say a motioncapture set, then you need a Gigabit switch for fast data transfer. (Heavy OSC.. Hehehe)
      3. Buy a router that has a great interface. Most of the time you need to use it when you are setting up your network. For example, you wish to give a static IP to your showcomputer so you are sure that when you unplug everthing and set it up at the next venue that it is just a matter of connecting the cables.
      4. If you use the router only for performance work then create a network (hidden) with a simple password so that you can connect your devices on the fly.
      5. HIDE YOUR NETWORK.. We don't want to broadcast something like 'Performance' as our SSID

      Personally I have a Netgear NIGHTHAWK


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      • Woland
        Woland Tech Staff @Juriaan last edited by

        @juriaan

        Thanks for the info! Its great to collect all of this information in one place for forum users.

        Best wishes,

        Woland

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        • Woland
          Woland Tech Staff last edited by

          Hello all,

          For the sake of my own knowledge, and the benefit of future forum-users who run across this thread:

          Further research has me asking the question, "Active or Passive POE?"

          Anyone care to shed light on this? Active looks to be more common, so that is what I am leaning towards.



          @Fred @Juriaan 

          I would love to know the make and model #'s of the routers that you mention if you have the time to check at some point.



          Best wishes,

          Woland

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          • Juriaan
            Juriaan Tech Staff last edited by

            The thing with POE (Power over Ethernet) is that not a lot of devices support it. Personally I'm more for a switch that can deliver POE and just connect a Ethernet cable from my router to it.

            Also I don't know a lot of routers that actually support 'POE' out of the box..

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            • Juriaan
              Juriaan Tech Staff last edited by

              I have a Nighthawk R7000 btw and a few smaller ones that I use in installations. (40 bucks TPLINK)

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              • Woland
                Woland Tech Staff last edited by

                I suppose I'm talking both switches (more common to have POE) and routers at this point 

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                • bonemap
                  bonemap @Woland last edited by bonemap

                  @woland

                  I am just asking the question how POE would be useful for an Isadora installation? My only experience with POE is as an end user of a corporate telephone system. Other than that, I believe some video extenders and IOT systems use POE. Could it be useful for running micro controllers such as Arduino’s? Is it something that is going to become more common or needed?

                  Best wishes,

                  Bonemap

                   

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                  • Juriaan
                    Juriaan Tech Staff @bonemap last edited by

                    @bonemap

                    Hi there Bonemap,

                    I use a POE Switch for powering my motion capture camera's (https://optitrack.com/) and I have to say that in the industry I see a lot of small devices that can actually use POE (Camera's, Artnet Receivers, etc). 

                    Ofcourse you can attach an arduino to a POE if you want too, the thing is that you need to make sure how much power is actually being send to your arduino, and convert it if necassary.

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                    • bonemap
                      bonemap @Juriaan last edited by bonemap

                      @Juriaan 

                      Ah OK, so these are specific purpose cameras that work in an array? I guess surveillance style systems would also use POE. I don’t see a lot of gear like that. But I can imagine it would be very useful to have plug and play networked devices with POE.

                      Thanks for your insight.

                      Best wishes

                      Bonemap 

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                      • Juriaan
                        Juriaan Tech Staff last edited by

                        Exactly. Systems like surveillance camera's also use it. Basically most small networked devices have a version that is POE enabled.

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