[mythtv] Potential Set-up

[Micah Morton]

I would like to warn everybody here about Kingston NIC's in general. I'm a
linux network adapter tester for Intel and what I don't test at work, I
test at home for my own good and for the good of the linux community (like
everybody should)... and Kingston cards freeze up on large streams..
Mostly udp traffic and ipx specific stuff. TCP/IP streams seem to be okay,
however, on Abit motherboards and any Serverworks chipset motherboard, it
seems to hang randomly on bootup.. Not really sure what its all about, but
seems un-fixable without re-coding the drivers.. Anyways, thats my 2
cents. I would recommend (as a cheap alternative to a REAL nic) netgear or
SMC.  Linksys cards also have problems. Also.. a good integrated chipset
for onboard stuff is tulip/realtek8139/8239 or the 8100 or whatever. 
Those are fairly well engineered chipsets.

--Micah Morton
--Linux Network Test Engineer
--Intel Corp

> How does this setup look to you all:
>
> LEADTEK WINFAST A170TH SDR GEFORCE4 MX420 64MB 4XAGP W/TV VGA (White
> box) $39.50
>
> AMD ATHLON & SDRAM SYSTEMS (BLACK) 1.44MB FDD
> (CG 6055-C10-Case; BIOSTAR M7VKQ-Specs; AMD ATHLON 1333(266MHZ); 32X64
> 256MB PC133; NO CDROM, CDRW OR DVD) $177.36  (
> http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/a15913.html )
>
> KINGSTON 10/100 PCI NETWORKING INTERFACE CARD KNE110TX VP (OEM) $5.90
>
> HAUPPAUGE WINTV-GO 125-CHANNEL PCI TV TUNER CARD (*While Supplies
> Last!) Detail Specs $41.00
>
> MAXTOR 60.0GB DX6Y060L0 EIDE ULTRA-ATA 133 8.5MS 7200RPM 2MB BUFFER
> (Bare drive) $83.00
>
> Sub Total $346.76
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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