Ethernet and Router
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I just bought your product and but I went unto the first how to Video. It mentioned about getting an ethernet cable and putting it into the router. The ethernet cable is no problem. The problem is the router. It is in a different part of the house from where I will be teaching and playing my cello from . I am using your product to do not only individual Cello lessons, but Group lessons, teaching Cello players how to improvise and play other styles besides Classical. I’d appreciate any help on this topic that people care to give.
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Dear Fred,
Thank you for your post. Please select a length of Ethernet cable that reaches comfortably from where you’d like to play your cello to your router. Running an Ethernet cable to a different room is perfectly fine (I do this myself) because Ethernet cables can be up to 300 feet long without a problem — here’s a 300-foot example.
There’s no need to drill holes in walls. You can disconnect and roll the cable up to put it away between lessons. I personally keep my cable connected. If you prefer to keep the cable off the floor, use 3M Command loops.
Please feel free to personalize and send the template message on our teaching-tips page to your students to help them get started. Additionally, monthly support sessions are a great place for students to get started. Monthly support sessions are free to subscribers (like you, thank you) and students of “FarPlay For Teachers” subscribers.
Thank you,
David LiaoHi Fred,
Thank you for your clarification.
If you’re just taking individual turns playing in a lesson (not playing together in rhythmic sync), you don’t need to use Ethernet. Our own CEO Dan Tepfer uses Wi-Fi to teach piano lessons in which he and the student don’t need to play together at the same time.
If you want to make music together in rhythmic sync, use Ethernet at each end. Though Wi-Fi varies from home to home, it’s common for Wi-Fi to make latency high and unstable (typically tens of milliseconds higher than with Ethernet and sometimes spiking by hundreds of milliseconds). Even “strong” Wi-Fi produces such high and unstable latency, which makes playing in sync impossible (or at least difficult and frequently interrupted). Additionally, when someone uses Wi-Fi to connect to me, it’s common that they sound more crackly to me (unless I drag the latency slider quite far to the right, which then makes the latency from them to me much higher).
For more details, see our blog post “Do musicians really need to use Ethernet?“.
Thank you,
David Liao
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