Stroller, thank you very much for your detailed responses. I really appreciate your help.<br><br>Just to be clear, my decision to use the hub instead of a switch has nothing to do with me not knowing the difference between the two, and everything to do with a lack of resources at the time I was connecting things up. I had the B/E box directly connected to the IPCop box using a cross-over cable. I had originally intended to put the HDHR on my internal network, but once I got it and started setting it up I realized that Myth could not find the HDHR if it was on the internal network. In my rush to get things up and running I grabbed the first thing I could get my hands on, which was the hub. The way this problem presented itself it was not evident that this was/is a network issue. And despite your very valid points, I am still not 100% convinced that it is a network problem.
<br><br>I know that you said you are not familiar with 'ifconfig', but here's the latest stats:<br>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:6C:A8:D7:C5<br> inet addr:<a href="http://192.168.1.2">192.168.1.2
</a> Bcast:<a href="http://192.168.1.255">192.168.1.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br> inet6 addr: fe80::201:6cff:fea8:d7c5/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
<br> RX packets:40273085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:24402916 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br> RX bytes:106445286 (101.5
MiB) TX bytes:214347787 (204.4 MiB)<br> Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe200<br><br>If I was saturating the network wouldn't I see some errors, drops, collisions, etc.?<br><br>Also, I know I've probably been withholding key evidence, but I'm also running Slimserver (music server) on this Myth B/E. The service streams music in various formats over the network, and it's running all the time. I have to believe that this is generating at least as much, if not more, network traffic than simply starting the Myth front-end. But yet it is running the Myth F/E, and only this process, that causes a problem with the recordings.
<br><br>I am going to try moving the HDHR and Myth B/E into the internal network. Believe me, I hope I prove you right, and not wrong. <br><br>Thanks again to you and the others for the responses.<br><br>