Just purchased one of these bad boys from newegg and I'm getting lots of prebuffering pauses while watching videos streamed from the backend. I noticed that the pauses only occur during network streaming activity, if I rewind the video and play it (from cache) it's perfect. Then I noticed that ifconfig was reporting significant amounts of errors (22389!):<br>
<br>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:2e:26:4f:97<br> inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0<br> inet6 addr: fe80::201:2eff:fe26:4f97/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>
RX packets:1445943 errors:22389 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:22389<br> TX packets:970314 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br> RX bytes:1918270735 (1.7 GiB) TX bytes:81217659 (77.4 MiB)<br>
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000<br><br>The error number skyrockets as I watch a video (especially while it is giving me prebuffering pauses). I have a usb-to-ethernet device and using the same cat5e cable on this usb ethernet port results in smooth, error-less transmissions. It's looking like this is a problem with my specific motherboard. Has anyone else with one of these Zotac IONITX deals seen anything like this? I'd hate to return it only to have the same issue, I'd like to find out that it's something in my configuration.<br>
<br>-Greg<br><br>