Regarding this whole audio over Cat5 thread, do we actually understand what the objective is of this exercise / project?&nbsp; Is the original authors use of terminology such that we know what is actually supposed to be achieved?<br><br>When I first read this, I thought the idea was to produce some sort of network-transported audio stream, like that of a video stream, something which could be "listened to" by some network-connected client computer with its own audio output hardware.&nbsp; Since routers themselves have no speakers, I could not reach any other conclusion.&nbsp; Now it sounds more like a hack to get packets to somehow generate audio as a byproduct ... kind of like the audio version of streaming video via ASCII on a character terminal.&nbsp; Or a better analogy would be getting the old PC "speaker" to emit discernible sounds by sending digital data to it's IO port.<br><br>It reminds me of a story my uncle the television engineer told me about how there was a
 scrap pile of old bolts and cables lying on the floor in the corner of the antenna-transmitter shack of the VHF TV station where he was chief engineer for a number of years before he retired.&nbsp; One day, after replacing a couple of guy wire mounting brackets on the tower (a tower of about 1200'), he threw the scrap hardware on the junk pile in the shack.&nbsp; Suddenly, he could hear the audio signal for the station coming out of the junk pile.&nbsp; He tried to leave the pile undisturbed after that to preserve the effect, but eventually someone bumped or otherwise changed the pile and it stopped "working".<br><br>Sorry, I digress.&nbsp; So tell me again ... what is the real goal of this project?<br><br>- Doug H<br><br>