<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The HD Homerun is an EXTERNAL box which you talk to over ethernet, no<br>
card length issues there. Dual recordings can flood a 100Mbps<br>
etherlink, but you should be able to do better with a Gbps ethernet<br>
connection (which are becoming more commonplace all the time!).<br></blockquote></div><br>I have 2 HDHRs. After I got the second one, I tried recording 4 HD broadcasts simultaneously to see if there was a network bandwidth problem in my 100Mb/s setup. The streams averaged about 15Mb/s each. I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't notice any glitches or dropouts at all. In my experience/estimation, the very occasional glitches I see come from disk bandwidth problems (recording 3-4 programs, plus running two commflag jobs, plus maybe mythweb pounding on the DB) and possibly broadcast signal problems.<br>
<br>If you use an ethernet switch to isolate the HDHR(s) and the backend from the rest of your home network, the HDHR traffic shouldn't flood out the rest of the home network.<br><br>With that said, I still decided to buy a gigabit switch, just in case.<br>
<br>Jim<br>