How do I switch from Wi-Fi to Ethernet cables?

@brunomarcs ;) Make mine a double!

@calieng +1 on the Asus Ai Mesh system,I have 4 Asus Mesh capable wireless routers and it is the best wireless setup I've had in my home thus far.WAY more powerful/capable than eero and the like. The UI can put a lot of other posters issues to rest as you can see the up-down bit rates and what is connected to the network and assign bitrate priorties to a device.  What I've found is there is no appreciable difference in sound quality between wireless streaming and a wired set up (with devices I own,YMMV) as stated previously you don't need a ton of bandwidth to stream music. The OP would be wise to stick with wifi using the Bluesound Node the added preformance is likely to be not worth the headache because the Bluesound Node has an excellent wireless receiver built in. Some have experienced better results via a Lan connect but in those instances my guess would be the wireless module in the unit is likely an older wireless protacol which is not the case with the Node the real magic depends on what you are feeding the Node into for most mid teir systems much like dacs.

There is a lot of debate regarding this topic if you disagree with me fine, but please lets be adults and civil about it...

@panzrwagn +1

My two cents, as someone who has worked with Ethernet for almost 40 years, put in a good WiFi 6 mesh router setup, put a good network analyzer on your phone and learn how to assign WiFi to unused channels that give you good signal strength. That is the state of the art.

The Asus Ai Mesh system does exactly what you mention above regarding assigning signal strength.

@fredrik222 +1

You are also 100% correct songs are stored in a cache. To prove this if streaming music and someone sitting next to you watching video on an Ipad etc. asks "do you have an internet signal?" and 30 seconds to a minute later your media cuts out also. That is the cache dynamic in play.

 The world is going wireless most new home builders are not even offering Eternet wiring on build playlist anymore because most don’t find value in it. In 5-10 years this will seem like a silly conversation. Most younger folks under 25 don’t even know what Lan is.

 

@cleeds You and fredrik222 are both correct...The term "Streaming" is a term we’ve all come to understand and accept as movies or audio distributed via the internet or satellite. However streaming in a truer sense is AM FM radio or analog TV. no caches etc. You hit the nail on the head by stating "Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify all use streaming protocols". To crumble up the differences between radio transmission and internet/sat transmission a perfect marketing tool was required hence "Streaming" and to go any deeper would make the average persons head explode to crumble up the differences,not only that the intellectual curiousity isn’t there in the first place.

@12many Exactly.

@cleeds I’m still comfortable with explaining the Ai Mesh system as daisy chaining in simple terms, and your comment is still no less dishonest. I may be confused as you say but I still I am smart enough to own the best wifi system availible in the view of many in this discussions opinion.

@cleeds Why leave the most pertinet compnet of my comment out...

I stated "I've encountered some folk who are under the impression wireless Wifi and a mesh system are two different things they are not, mesh is simply daisy chaining a wireless signal."    Which is a fact, Omitting parts of the entire sentence is dishonest.

@musicfan2349 +1

To anyone interested in the Asus Ai Mesh system an "Extender" is any Asus wireless router that has a "Ai Mesh" designation (which is almost all the new Asus wireless routers).So don't be thrown off by that... What I also like about the Ai mesh system is you can buy a inexpensive Asus router with the Ai system capabilty and add it to a more capable unit or use it a stand alone down the line truly mix and match if you like. I've encountered some folk who are under the impression wireless Wifi and a mesh system are two different things they are not, mesh is simply daisy chaining a wireless signal.

@musicfan2349 You are 100% correct in the deeper clarification but most are not that curious. Daisy chain is something most can understand and your breakdown is technically correct. But I'll stick with Daisy chain when explaining our Mesh Ai systems :)

@cleeds unbunch them for Pete’s sake... You intentionally omit parts of comments all the time. If you meant no foul my bad. Can you admit the the same and move on? Often this is what a thread here becomes just nasty uncalled for spewing of childish "gotcha" bale, I stated earlier lets be civil in our communication I had people like you in mind.

@cleeds Civility.

@musicfan2349 I remembered seeing "daisy chain topogrphy" as an explanation in Asus’s set up guide see page 10 of the link.

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1kBHyTa5TL.pdf

If you look at Asus’s expalnation in advertisments etc they refer to the technology as "daisy chaining routers". Google it. Your explanation is more complete but for most this is an easy wrap around.

@musicfan2349 I did not disagree with you nor your explaination I stated you are 100% correct and clearly stated. "You are 100% correct in the deeper clarification but most are not that curious. Daisy chain is something most can understand and your breakdown is technically correct. But I’ll stick with Daisy chain when explaining our Mesh Ai systems :) No aurgument here you are on point. I am not a 40 year software veteran and I learned a long time ago KISS.

All the best!