[mythtv-users] HDHomerun and network problems?

[Mitch Gore]

On 10/19/07, John Welch <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > So last night I was trying to watch a hockey game.  It was an SD
> > recording at my High Quality setting (about half the bitrate of an HD
> > show).  I was getting lots of prebuffering pauses making it basically
> > unwatchable though my frontend was only using about 10% cpu.  I went
> > upstairs and tried the game on my backend machine and it played
> > perfectly.  So I am thinking its a network problem.  At the time I had
> > 2 HD recordings going on the HDHR.  At 11:00PM when the HDHR finished
> > the game started playing fine.
> >
> > Could be a totally different problem, but I had similar symptoms when I
> first setup an HDHR on my network and Myth backend.  I was banging my head
> against the wall trying to solve the problem because there were no obvious
> error messages or anything like that on either the backend or the frontend.
> I finally traced the problem to the fact that the on-board network interface
> on the backend MOBO simply couldn't handle the traffic of recording the HDHR
> stream over the network and streaming to the frontend.  I threw an old 3Com
> 10/100 NIC into a PCI slot and the problem went away.  Not really happy
> about having to give up the slot, which I could have potentially used for
> another tuner card, but I had to do it.  I eventually upgraded to GB NICs
> and a GB switch, but that really wasn't necessary.  Like I said, could be a
> totally different situation for you, but I thought I'd pass on my experience
> to potentially save you some headaches.
>
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I tried to move my HDHR off the network but couldn't figure out how to set
up a dhcp server on just that interface. Does anyone know how i can bridge
the two Ethernet cards so i pulls a DHCP address from my router?

Thanks,
Mitchell
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