[mythtv-users] HDhomeRun hookup question?
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Tue Dec 5 16:14:13 UTC 2006
William Munson wrote:
> I am getting ready to buy a hdhomerun but have a question to put to the
> group.
>
> I run a wireless network at home (Apartment, no hole cutting allowed)
> and expect that it will not have enough bandwidth to support 2 channel
> recording off the hdhomerun thru the wireless. Is it possible to hook up
> the box directly to my backend machine via a dedicated ethernet card and
> a crossover cable? That would give a 100mbit dedicated channel for
> recording.
>
> Sound like it would work?
That should work fine. HDHomeRun DHCP's for its address. Therefore, you
will want to run a DHCP server on your MythTV backend and bind it to the
IP address or Ethernet interface of the dedicated Ethernet card.
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