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2013/08/07 at 9:38 am #23914

millst
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Hi

Does anyone know if the MEU can be used as a standard switch in an iLive network. ie can I connect non ME1 devices into it and access the iLive, other devices on the network and ALL dante channels?

I’m looking at getting a couple of these
https://www.four-audio.com/en/products/dbs1.html
which need POE and I wondered if I could just run them off an MEU instead of having to buy another POE switch as well.

Regards
Toby

2013/08/08 at 6:44 am #34599

dnxmirrorsounds
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The bigger question is: do you really want to run the risk that the band will lose their IEMs even momentarily,for the sake of buying an extra $100 switch?

Duncan Whitcombe
@Dnxmirrorsounds
Mirror Sounds & metrochurch
Perth, Australia
T112, iDR48x2
http://www.mirrorsounds.com.au
http://www.metrochurch.org.au

2013/08/08 at 1:17 pm #34600

ahjeff
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Hi Toby

No, you can’t use the ME-U in that way. The 10 ports do form a standard switch, but all 10 broadcast a dSnake stream, which uses pretty much all of the bandwidth available.

– Jeff, A&H

2013/08/09 at 4:05 am #34604

millst
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Thanks Jeff

@Duncan
If you can tell me where I can find a 16 or 24 port rack mount managed gigabit switch with POE for $100 then I wouldn’t need to ask.
The last switch I bought cost me $1800 so I was thinking if an MEU could be used it would nicely kill two birds with one stone.
Or one bird with two rack spaces so to speak.

I wouldn’t trust my audio to a $100 switch.

I’d rather not have to tell a client that the reason they had a 5000 pax riot on their hands when the audio stopped during a show was because I bought a $100 network switch which all of my control, audio and monitor splits for the whole show were passing through.

A switch is a single point of failure these days and not worth skimping on. There is a big difference between a cheap consumer switch and an enterprise managed switch which we really all should be using if we value the traffic passing over it.

2013/08/11 at 5:36 am #34614

gilparente
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Hi Toby,
Why not just add a POE injector to power the unit?
Sounds like it would be a $30 solution

Gil Parente
Design & Integration
Entertainment Arts, Inc.
iLive 176, T112
iDR48 , iDR16, iDR10
Multiple iPads
Dante
Etc..

2013/08/12 at 10:11 pm #34618

millst
Participant

I use POE a lot.
I have multiple access points, remote audio transmission equipment.
Injectors are ok, but they are messy and another point of failure.

2013/08/12 at 11:48 pm #34619

Stix
Participant

quote:

Originally posted by millst

There is a big difference between a cheap consumer switch and an enterprise managed switch which we really all should be using if we value the traffic passing over it.

Yes indeed – there is a big difference – a $100 switch could potentially fail and ruin your gig, an $1800 enterprise class managed switch could possibly fail and ruin your gig. The difference is $1700 and a false sense of security HaHaHa!! []

Cheers

Richard Howey
Audio Dynamite Ltd
IDR48/IDR16/T112/R72/Mixpad,Tweak,
Dual M-Dante/DVS, 17″MBP/Logic 9/Custom Mackie Control

2013/08/14 at 7:29 am #34633

millst
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If that was the case I would have bought an x32

I have a pile of 5 poked dlink and net gear “cheap” switches that are broke.
I have had precisely zero Cisco and linksys switches out of a fleet of 7 that have failed.

I like those odds.
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