Dennis I know there are some much smarter guys on here that will most likely be able to give you better answers but I do know the Etherdongle outputs at 50ms so I would presume that trying push anything faster through it might account for missed frames but like I said others would have to answer the exact answer. I know for my show I used LSP 2.5 to sequence and when I tried to use the LSP scheduler to play my show it played OK but didn't look right so I converted all my sequences to X-light sequences and used X-Lights and what a difference it made, it was like a totally different show. SACNview is very useful tool along with Wireshark if you using E1.31 to track packets.
Thanks for your reply.
This problem was reported to LOR this year and they knew the Etherdongle was being used. The question presented was "what is the maximum timing to be used with the Eetherdongle" and the answer came back what RJ gave us which is 23ms, that is about 44 FPS. So 25ms (40 FPS) should work fine and it dose.
Also tried XLights and it did not fix the problem either, it was slightly better than S3.
I think that if running the DMX protocol, the timing is critical, that is keeping everything within a constant timing frame, LOR does not do that and you cannot setup a 23 or 25 ms timing slots, only 20,30,40,50ms etc. variable is out also LOR in chases allows you to violate the timing marks when doing chases. That may of worked fine using the LOR protocol only but I feel that does not work for DMX. I know HLS looks at the LOR and Vixen events and makes a decision if the cell has an event or not.
Maybe someone else here that knows the DMX standards can add more information on this. I am no expert on this but have done a lot of reading trying to get my display to work.
I do feel if specification on products is not published then it is easy to break something and then blame the company for having a bad product.
My past lives was being a Manufacturing Product Engineer and worked closely with UL, CSA, BABT, etc agencies, but again I am no expert on this.