E.131 on multicast

[ranjanpa]

My 16 channel pixel tree on e.131 is choking my home Internet completely . Should I configure as unicast instead of multicast.

I have 4 universes on multicast. Pls advice.

Thanks


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[dkulp]

Yes.   Unless you have a separate network for your show or you don't have Wifi anywhere, going unicast is your best bet. 

[windsurf]

So serious network guy here...  Your choices are pretty simple. 
1.  Use Unicast.  As long as you have a good switch, it will isolate your traffic just to the device running the show and the devices running your lights.  Note that at my house, my 3 daughters running all their crap (lots of it broadcast) resulted in stops in my show.  So I had to choose 2.
2.  Create a show specific network.  I use a Falcon Pi Player.  I put the ethernet port from it and from all the San Devices 6804s on the 168.192.2.x network.  They are connected to a single switch which is isolated from everything else.  ON the Falcon Pi, I installed the wireless.  It is on the 192.168.1.x network (my home network).  So now, I can get to the Falcon Pi on the 1.x network to download things.  It then runs the 2.x network isolated for my show.  My daughter's traffic doesn't interfere.

Make sense?

[Duane Johnson]

Yea...sounds like what I need to do....but not a network guy to know anything about how to do that...can you do a quick written tutorial?

[ranjanpa]

Thanks. Do I just go to e.131 portal and select unicast. Is it as simple as that. I run my show from a laptop. Is there a tutorial on this or instructions.


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[gerry]

Thanks. Do I just go to e.131 portal and select unicast. Is it as simple as that. I run my show from a laptop. Is there a tutorial on this or instructions.


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Yes - the ip address that you specify must be the ip address of your controller (sorry if that was obvious) . The controller ip address should be set to static (if there is a choice of static or DHCP) , so that it does not change.