Pimping your router

@jerrybj 

Great, hope to hear your impressions soon. 

Doesn't it just slow the network traffic down to 100mbps, rather than cause the streamer not to work?

For example I would slow down ports on a managed switch from 1Gb/s to 100mb/s, and a 1Gbs streamer would still work.

But this was done at the switch level, perhaps an inline device like what most network filters are will indeed cause problems.

I just put a Ferrum  Hypsos LPS with a LessLoss Marc entropic pc on my mesh node router and the system sounds noticeably better. Less noise, greater detail, greater dynamics. No downside. Obvious on the first track. Crazy hobby. 

Yet another update: while I originally used the Acoustic Revive RLT1 filter on my streamer and then Etherregen, I have now moved it to the Draytek Vigor 2860 router, i.e. right at the entry point of public ADSL. The resultant clean up of soundstage, insteument timbre, attack and decay is simply unbelievable. Very highly recommended. 

Pimping your router is 101 for good streaming

Yet another update: while I originally used the Acoustic Revive RLT1 filter on my streamer and then Etherregen, I have now moved it to the Draytek Vigor 2860 router, i.e. right at the entry point of public ADSL. The resultant clean up of soundstage, insteument timbre, attack and decay is simply unbelievable. Very highly recommended. 

I have a few Waversa EXT-1 LAN filters (inline filters) and have been playing with different positions in the audio/network chain.

But had not tried it yet where you suggested. This is huge. I had no idea the public cable internet line was bringing so much noise into the house. The weird part is my streamer and TV, which both saw improvement doing this, are two network devices away.

Cable Modem > Cisco Router > LHY SW-6 Switch > Streamer/TV/NAS

I put the filter inline between cable modem and Cisco router, the earliest point in the chain possible.