As you will find if you search around there are many ways to improve the stream to your music player . In my case I use a Ethernet to Fibre Optic box and then connect using SFP to Netlink Switch using a cisco SFP cable that I was alerted to by Martin . This does everything that I need but other often find a different route .

Nigel - The Flash has just recently joined this forum and he has a new venture that he has set up which offers some very heavily worked on network switches you can read the details here www.reikiaudio.com/ . Now I have known Nigel for quite a few years and he is very much a music lover and has some very impressive equipment go through his hands including some very expensive and well reviewed items that he dismissed and got rid of . I say this to that your understand Nigel wants to improve the music that comes out and is not just looking at the technical elements but what the actual sound that comes out does. Nigel is also a very good person to talk to and I would suggest get in touch if you are interested and see what he can suggest .

Thanks chaps,
I don't fancy spending £30 a month on data. Got to watch the pennies now I'm retired.

In my experience while adding audiophile switches and optical links had a big benefit and I would not go back on them. Treating my router as a hifi component gave me big gains also.

For context I am running a Draytech router, which does the whole house including WiFi. I added a linear PSU and big jump, added a grounding box into the usb port, another big jump, proper supports and weight on top also brought about gains. I recently swapped the PSU from a Zero Zero to a Plixir balanced and that again gave me a big jump in performance.

Now seeing the Fidelizer I can see from the specs that swapping out my Draytech would bring about further gains.

I have had my router for about 5 years and it still runs perfectly, which router are you using?