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Hardware => Lynx EtherDongle => Topic started by: tng5737 on October 20, 2011,

Title: Basic EtherDongle question
Post by: tng5737 on October 20, 2011,

I have a very basic question - given that EtherDongle puts out 16K of data for pixelnet - is it correct to say that if you had two hubs which were wired so that the pixelnet Output of Hub1 fed the pixelnet input of Hub2 then I would ONLY need ONE EtherDongle to feed Hub1 and that all 16k is available to both Hubs.   If the Hubs were jumpered correctly, then Hub1 would handle 1-4096 and Hub2 would handle 4097-8192.

Title: Re: Basic EtherDongle question
Post by: Steve Gase on October 20, 2011,

yes.  but for clarity... both hubs have the potential of all 16K, but once configured each hub will only present a 4K range.

Title: Re: Basic EtherDongle question
Post by: mykroft on October 20, 2011,

yes, remember the etherdongles output is like a lynx combiner, it is sending out 4 data streams, on 4 pairs of wires.

Your hub jumpers will tell that hub what data pair to listen to.  The input has all 4 pairs, and the chaining output has all 4 pairs going out as well.

so a etherdongle can handle 4 hubs without duplicating channels.

Myk