[TJ-Sully]

Hi Bryston family!

I am using a BDP-3 and loving it. 
I have a 50-foot ethernet run from my router
to my bdp3. 

To help remove any noise along the way, I bought a
Ethernet > fiber optic > back to Ethernet converter. 
In this way I was hoping to use a short ethernet connection from the converter to the bdp3.

This conversion setup worked with other streamers - but the BDP3
doesn’t seem to recognize the incoming bitstream - and nothing plays.

Has anyone tried this and had success?
To the Bryston tech crew - any suggestions much appreciated!

Thanks
TJ.

 

[zoom25]

I didn't end up going the route of a fiber optic converter, but I did go through a few routers and switches back when I was tinkering. The LPS on the switches helped.

As far as your technical speed is concerned, are all devices operating on the same speed (gigabit vs 100mbps). I remember some having that issue when they were using fiber optic converter in the mix with audio streamers.

[TJ-Sully]

Hey zoom.  Thanks for responding.   I’m uncertain of the speeds.  I will try to dig into this.   Thanks again! TJ

[sfraser]

AS Zoom25 alluded to, it sounds like a auto negotiation issue.

[Stefan_DR3]

Oddly, I plugged my BDP3 into a different Ethernet port on a simple 8-port switch yesterday and it stopped working.  There were link LEDs on both ends but the BDP3 did not get an IP address.  I had to reboot it then it started working again.  In other words make all connections while the unit is off.  It appears the Linux OS is not configured to automatically bring interfaces back up (you could probably log in and force it to with the right command).