<br>For TCP MTU should be negotiated, for UDP all machines on the same LAN segment need the same MTU.<br>Almost all cards support larger MTUīs but not all home segment switches do, some do but Iīve not seen anyone supporting larger than 9K. Intel NIC cards support up to 16K.
<br>Some realtek cards are close to useless, worse than 100Mbit cards, so google the stuff before purchase.<br><br>The highest allowed bitrate in blueray is 48Mbit if I recall correctly, thatīs about 6MB/second, theoretical max on 100Mbit ethernet is 12,5Mbytes per second, but 10 is closer to reality.
<br>200-300Mbit is achivable easily from GBit gear 400-600 is doable, above that with consumer gear is not to be expected (imho).<br><br>Multiple streams probably is harder on the drives than on the network, does anyone have som experience on how many streams SDTV and/or HDTV is doable to a single spindel, without to much fragmentation (how large "blocks" are written by myth?)
<br><br>/Henrik<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">MacNean Tyrrell</b> <<a href="mailto:dardack@gmail.com">dardack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have 5 or 6 D-Link DGE-530T cards, they are well supported in Linux,<br>and specifically KnoppMyth, using the sk98lin driver. They are $25 in
<br>Canada. I also have 2 x 5 port D-Link Gig switches, and 1 x 8 port<br>Linksys Gig switch (I know, not optimal), I think the 5 ports are around<br>$50.</blockquote>
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<div>can i ask why not optimal?</div>
<div> (i'll prolly just need 1 5 port switch (internet or firewall been thinking of making my raid server a firewall also), mythtv box, gaming box, and a port for the wireless hub i have.</div><span class="q"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You will definitely see an increase just by plopping the cards in and<br>using the switch, you don't necessarily have to up the MTU. I tried, and
<br>it sort of worked, but not really, so I put it back.<br><br>HTH<br>Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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