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Can I just plug the EthIR Beam into my own Ethernet hub without your EthIR Switch?

April 26, 2017beam Ethernet EthIR Hub PLUG Switch

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Can I just plug the EthIR Beam into my own Ethernet hub without your EthIR Switch?

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No. An EthIR Beam receives infrared frames from an infrared device and delivers these to the EthIR Switch. The EthIR Switch then translates these infrared frames to Ethernet frames (and vice-versa) forwarding and receiving frames to and from an Ethernet network. An Ethernet hub cannot translate infrared frames. That is the purpose of the EthIR Switch.