[mythtv-users] Can't reexport SMB share over NFS...what am I doing wrong?

Scott Alfter scott at alfter.us
Fri Sep 10 18:48:57 UTC 2010


On 10 Sep 10 11:26, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 1.5Mbps is fairly trivial for wireless networking to handle.  You're
> nowhere near your functional limits, even for 802.11b.

That's what I thought.

> Just mount the CIFS share directly on your frontend

That's what I'm doing now.  Unfortunately, it's pausing frequently for most of
my movies.

> or better yet, use storage groups and let MythTV share it for you.

If that'd change the over-the-air protocol from SMB, I'm open to giving it a
shot; MPEG-2 SD recordings at ~6 Mbps from my PVR-500 seem to stream OK.  I've
not done anything with storage groups before, so I'd need to read a bit about it.

> Running wires would be the best option, but since you have all A and N gear,
> using the 5GHz band and making sure you're using a free channel, will
> alleviate a lot of the interference issues.

Without a doubt, a wired connection would be better.  Getting the cable from
point A to point B for this setup, though, presents some challenges I'm trying
to avoid.  I'd experimented with powerline networking in the past, but "85
Mbps" equipment was usually delivering 5 Mbps or less in practice.  After
briefly hanging the remote frontend off of my WRT54GL as a test and getting
results not as bad as I expected, I figured that setting up a separate 5-GHz
wireless network dedicated to video would do the trick.  Maybe setting up
MythVideo to use storage groups will do the trick.

Scott Alfter
scott at alfter.us


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