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

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jul 23 05:56:50 UTC 2008


On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Jonathan Seawright wrote:

>
> 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?)

No, what I'm saying is "Make sure you're running 100 megabit and put  
your frontend on the same switch as your backend to see if it helps."

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