[mythtv-users] HDhomeRun hookup question?
William Munson
wmunson at rochester.rr.com
Tue Dec 5 21:22:45 UTC 2006
Paul Bender wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Great! No problem running a dhcp server. Time to get out the plastic.
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