On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jim Stichnoth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stichnot@gmail.com">stichnot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><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" target="_blank">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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></div>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.</blockquote>
<div><br>I would tend to agree. My storage group of 2 single drives + 1 OS + 1 DB drive seems to max out with 4 recordings (2 HD, 2SD) + 1 commflag and 1 watching. Any more recordings (3 HD using multi-rec) or 2 commflag seems to be too much (this is IDE drives)<br>
<br>Kevin</div></div><br>