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<blockquote data-quote="Bradley Dyke" data-source="post: 652172" data-attributes="member: 60909"><p>Ok thought i might test this a bit.</p><p>Network Setup</p><p>ASUS WL-600g All-in-1 Wireless ADSL2/2+ Home Gateway</p><p>Thermaltake Media PC (living room) this is my media/live TV server with 5 USB drives *connected with Cat 5</p><p>Clone PC in study (running uTorrent constantly <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />) *connected with cat 5</p><p>Asrock ION330HT in bedroom connected with internal wireless (no external antenna)</p><p></p><p>So Clone PC downloading at 100kb/s living room Media PC running BH 90210 on DVD (don't ask <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />) and recording live TV. so a bit of existing load on network and resources.</p><p></p><p>turn on Asrock (btw it loads to windows in under 5 sec with instant boot turned on) checked connection over wireless and only 2/5 bars with quality rating of Poor (not a good start)</p><p>went to My Videos and played the following</p><p>2001 A Space Odyssey.m2ts 1920 x 1080 6ch AC3 took a little while to start but once running very smooth ffw caused small delay but then resumed smoothly</p><p>8 Mile.mkv 1280 x 544 DTS not too bad again took a while to get to load but reasonably smooth ffw again caused a little stuttering for approx 30 sec and then smooth.</p><p>Black Hawk Down.wmv 1280 x 720 6ch wma bad real bad constant stuttering and some distortion on image ffw bad stuttering</p><p>300.mkv 1920 x 800 6ch AC3 unusable really took about 3 minutes to load and then just constant stuttering.</p><p></p><p>A mixed result i guess but considering i only have an average connection over wireless and the server was playing and recording i think it's not such a bad performance and to be honest for a bedroom machine the small size, zero noise, instant on and relatively cheap price makes this for me a winner. clearly cat 6 or even dedicated cat 5 would be a step up but maybe later. also think a more centralized storage and Db solution could improve throughput. hoping for this with Mp 2 as managing tv series databases on 2 machines is a pain. </p><p></p><p>thanks for reading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bradley Dyke, post: 652172, member: 60909"] Ok thought i might test this a bit. Network Setup ASUS WL-600g All-in-1 Wireless ADSL2/2+ Home Gateway Thermaltake Media PC (living room) this is my media/live TV server with 5 USB drives *connected with Cat 5 Clone PC in study (running uTorrent constantly :D) *connected with cat 5 Asrock ION330HT in bedroom connected with internal wireless (no external antenna) So Clone PC downloading at 100kb/s living room Media PC running BH 90210 on DVD (don't ask :rolleyes:) and recording live TV. so a bit of existing load on network and resources. turn on Asrock (btw it loads to windows in under 5 sec with instant boot turned on) checked connection over wireless and only 2/5 bars with quality rating of Poor (not a good start) went to My Videos and played the following 2001 A Space Odyssey.m2ts 1920 x 1080 6ch AC3 took a little while to start but once running very smooth ffw caused small delay but then resumed smoothly 8 Mile.mkv 1280 x 544 DTS not too bad again took a while to get to load but reasonably smooth ffw again caused a little stuttering for approx 30 sec and then smooth. Black Hawk Down.wmv 1280 x 720 6ch wma bad real bad constant stuttering and some distortion on image ffw bad stuttering 300.mkv 1920 x 800 6ch AC3 unusable really took about 3 minutes to load and then just constant stuttering. A mixed result i guess but considering i only have an average connection over wireless and the server was playing and recording i think it's not such a bad performance and to be honest for a bedroom machine the small size, zero noise, instant on and relatively cheap price makes this for me a winner. clearly cat 6 or even dedicated cat 5 would be a step up but maybe later. also think a more centralized storage and Db solution could improve throughput. hoping for this with Mp 2 as managing tv series databases on 2 machines is a pain. thanks for reading. [/QUOTE]
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