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It’s funny because my wife had been complaining about some stuttering while streaming to an Apple TV downstairs. There are two switches (and a macbook pro) between the Apple TV and the NAS. So I had been thinking about replacing the switches with trendnet 2.5gbps switches. But this direct connection between the mac and the NAS seems to have done the trick (At least there were no complaints last night) and it was far cheaper . I think $30 unmanaged 1Gbps switches just don’t do well when there is a lot of traffic. It’s not the stream that‘s the problem, its all the other traffic flowing through all the other ports simultaneously. More expensive switches can handle more simultaneous traffic. So removing one big traffic stream seems to have made the whole network work better.Reminds me of my youth when I'd take a few playing cards and clothespin them on to my bicycle's fork so they'd snap against the spokes when riding. Sounded great and I could go much faster.
I may even consider hooking the other local nas directly to the mac, since I still have one USB-C/thunderbolt port free. Though my nas-to-nas backups are scheduled for midnight or 1am, so it’s unlikely to create a noticeable benefit (and I don’t do anything else with the second NAS). It’s more morbid curiosity - how many separate network interfaces can the mac handle before it goes all loopy.