Clyde,
What a terrific story. Great to hear adding Gemini for your "network closet" worked out so well for you. It really brought a similar magnitude of mprovements to my system as well. You can obtain further improvements by adding a ground cable with an RJ45 tail to an unused port your Ethernet switch as well. The nice thing about EtherREGEN and the new Bonn NX Ethernet switch is they have dedicated ground terminals on them, so you can use a ground cable with a simple spade connector to make the best possible type of connection to Gemini/Altaira.
Here's a shot of my current configuration. You can see there are now 3 ground cables connecting to the ground terminals along the bottom of Gemini: EtherREGEN, Alita (the Akasa NUC Roon core), and my Pace router.
Here's a shot of the rear of the Bonn NX Ethernet swtich and it's dedicated ground terminal.
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Last edited by Puma Cat; 07-29-2023 at 06:57 PM.
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