[mythtv-users] HD Choppy or Jerky

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dick,

Sunday, February 2, 2014, 5:49:50 AM, you wrote:

> I appreciate all the responses to my questions. The leading contender 
> seems to be potential bottlenecks in the house network. I neglected to
> mention a couple of switches in the system, some old enough that they do
> not support 10/100/1000 speed, only 10/100. I have come up with a test
> that I hope will help determine if network speed is the issue.

> One of my four port switches supports 10/100/1000 Ethernet. I installed
> it in the living room because I only have two CAT-5 cables going there
> and they were both in use before adding the potential Myth box to the 
> room. My plan is to move the HDHomeRun Prime to the living room, using a
> splitter there so it shares the RG-mumble cable feeding my old Comcast
> cable box. Connect the Ethernet side of the HDHomeRun Prime to the 
> 10/100/1000 switch. Connect the Lenovo M58P to that same switch. Leave
> the connection to the router on that switch, too, since both of the 
> other devices need DHCP from the router.

> If my assumption is correct, short, un-kinked CAT-5 cables going from 
> the switch to the HDHomeRun Prime and my Lenovo should operate at 1000
> when talking to each other. The only time they would operate at 100 
> would be while getting their IP assignment, or when the Lenovo needed to
> talk to the outside world.

> Does this sound reasonable? Am I missing something?



It definitively would rule out net speed if the issue persists.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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