[mythtv-users] Mythdora 4 Frontend Database Woes / Network Lag

Jonathan Seawright opustormy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 03:20:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Seawright wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> They have different IPs. I also changed the DB header for the machines to
>> be different.
>
> It might be a network problem, because I disabled the SMB mount and it's
> streaming, and it keeps studdering every 3/4th of a second or so. My
> switches hang when the video hangs, so i think it's a packet size problem?
>
>
> Switches? More than 1? Sounds like a bandwidth problem. If you're running
> 10 megabit at any point, I would say it's not enough for a smooth HD stream.
> You mentioned 10/100 which I assumed meant your switch was capable of 10 or
> 100 and you were running 100. Make sure you're running 100 megabit and put
> your frontend on the same switch as your backend to see if it helps.
>
Hmm, The way that the network is wired in our house, is there is a main
switch,
and I have switches placed between that and the myth boxes so that I can tap
into the connection with say, Xbox when a friend comes over...
you're saying to try ditching the switches?  I kinda doubt that's the
problem- I get the feeling that it's a MTU problem on my backend/frontend
(packets too small?)

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