Hi,
Like some people here I am a very enthusiastic person using and loving Mikrotik and RouterBoard products. So at home I have my office which has a RB3011 and a first CSS326-24G-2S+ which connects PC and servers. This Switch (SW0) connects to another switch in the living room (SW1) via a Fiber on 10G.
I have multiple VLANs, and one in particular is for the devices such as laptops, gaming consoles and workstation PC. The 2 Switches untag at the port for theses devices and the 10G link does the trunk.
That’s for the topology.
Now I recently got a NVIDIA shield which is connected in the living room to the SW1 via Ethernet CAT6 cable (thanks Amazon for making these cheap).
The principle of the NVIDIA shield is to stream from the PC a game so that you can play from anywhere a PC game and enjoy it in the living room.
Sometimes I was getting “High Packet Loss” from the NVIDIA shield whilst streaming in 2160p@30fps . So for testing purposes, in case a problem could be in the 10G link, I moved the PC to get it connected to the same SW1 switch. Both are connected via 1Gbps, the switch sees them both at 1Gbps with full Duplex. They both are within a VLAN which is untagged by the Switch at the port. So these 2 devices are on the same L2 and subnet (L3)
So now, I run a game (Tomb Raider) which then is streamed from the PC to the Shield. And I get “High Packet Loss” warning from the streaming device.
Given the 10G link is not the problem here, I picked up another switch I had in spare (NETGEAR-GS308-100UKS), and run the test again. No packet loss at all. I ran the tests many times, changing in-game settings etc. to try to see if the streaming quality etc. would have any affect, and it doesn’t.
The Switch is at the latest version (2.8 ). So I would really appreciate some help to understand why does the CSS326-24G-2S+ Struggle ?
Average speeds measured by the switch whist streaming is 66.31M (also measured in Zabbix via SNMP monitoring).
Many thanks,