<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrick Ouellette</b> <<a href="mailto:pat@flying-gecko.net">pat@flying-gecko.net</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;">
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:16:08PM -0700, Michael Rice wrote:<br>> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:16:08 -0700<br>> From: Michael Rice <<a href="mailto:mikerice1969@gmail.com">mikerice1969@gmail.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDHomerun and network problems?
<br>> To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>><br>> On 10/19/07, John Welch <<a href="mailto:jrw3319@gmail.com">jrw3319@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > Could be a totally different problem, but I had similar symptoms when I<br>> > first setup an HDHR on my network and Myth backend. I was banging my head<br>> > against the wall trying to solve the problem because there were no obvious
<br>> > error messages or anything like that on either the backend or the frontend.<br>><br>> Right. I'd like to be know which piece of the network is having<br>> trouble. It could be the NIC in either the frontend or backend or the
<br>> router. I don't know much about diagnosing networking problems. Can<br>> anyone point me to some tools or commands to use to help pinpoint<br>> network problems like this?<br>><br>> I thought from my investigations that a 100Mb network could handle 2
<br>> HDHR recordings plus streaming to a frontend. Do others have this<br>> setup working?<br>><br>> Eventually moving to Gig and/or moving the HDHR to its own NIC is<br>> probably a good idea but I'd like to make sure I understand the
<br>> bottleneck before I throw hardware at it.<br><br>Your "switch" is doing a lot of work. It is acting as a WAN link (I bet<br>it is doing NAT & firewall too), acting as a wired 10/100 switch, and a wireless
<br>bridge. My bet is it is not capable of sustained 100Mb/s throughput. 2<br>HD streams from the HDHR (40-50Mb/s total) plus lets say 10Mb/s for the<br>SD stream, filtering your internet traffic at 2-5Mb/s, and finally add in
<br>wireless broadcasting of the ssid and any internet traffic bridged to<br>the wireless side, and any WEP or WPA on the wireless side.<br>That's a lot of traffic for a consumer grade device.<br><br>Either put the HDHR on a dedicated NIC, or get a gigabit switch (they
<br>are about as inexpensive as a 10/100 now - a 10/100 should work too) to<br>separate your network into HDHR & Myth backend (off the new switch) and<br>everything else (off your existing switch/router/whatever).<br>
<br>I've been through all 3 configurations and can tell you I noticed a big<br>difference when I added the second switch, and then a smaller (but still<br>noticeable improvement) difference when I moved the HDHR to a dedicated
<br>NIC.<br><br></blockquote></div>
By "separate your network into HDHR & Myth backend", do you mean a separate subnet? Or did you see improvement by simply inserting a switch between those two nodes and the rest of the network (i.e. keep a "flat" network)?
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