[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Setup

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> I would like to get some feedback from those of you who have one of  
> these. I just ordered mine and was thinking how I was going to set  
> it up. I'm going to try a FE/BE in one system so I'll probably  
> install the HDHomeRun box in my data closet, however, if I decide I  
> need to go with a separate BE/FE arrangement could I have bandwidth  
> issues? In the latter setup the  BE would be receiving data from the  
> HDHomeRun and sending data to the FE. Now my system is 100Mbit full  
> duplex but I'd like to know if anyone has had any networking issues  
> with their setup.
>
> I could put a second network card in my Myth box to effectivley put  
> the HD Homerun on a separate network, but this would probably be  
> overkill and it would make it more difficult for other computers to  
> use it as a tuner.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard

I had issues when I was recording 2 programs, commflagging 1 and  
playing it back all over 100BaseT (slave backend recording which adds  
some MySQL traffic to the network as well). I don't know what else was  
happening on my network at the time, but likely several machines  
surfing the internet including a possible WOW game in progress. Since  
then I moved all my myth machines to their own gigabit switch (along  
with a NAS device). I still have issues once in a while if I'm  
recording a 2-3 of HD streams (I also have a pcHDTV-5500) to the NAS  
box, commflagging one and watching that one at the same time, but if I  
take the NAS box out of the equation (record to my backend's local  
drive) it seems ok.

-Brad