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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neild7744" data-source="post: 1041596" data-attributes="member: 142955">Hello guys. It's really good to see people adding their experience to this thread!Right here are some more things Ive been learning...1) network performance is very important for streaming HD content. Yesterday I spent all day testing the performance of mediaportal on my network. I found transfer speeds of files at 10Mb/s on 100Mbit LAN could stream 1 HD channel to a client and struggle with much else. Locally with TV service on my TV server I had 14 channels recording at the same time, 6 of these HD and I could watch any recorded TV or movie I wanted with no buffering. This gave me some confidence of my hardware capability on the server side of things. Soon as I fired up the client and tried to watch anything whilst these 14 channels were being recorded...it was crap. Didn't work.2) increasing my network to gigabit saw an increase in file transfer speed by 8x...which I would expect. I struggled to even stream 1 HD channel successfully without stuttering before...now gigabit LAN is in things seem much better.3) I mapped all my channels and 'pre loaded' cards in the tv server edit settings. This has helped with performance.4) I have created a ramdisk and used it for timeshift buffer.5) I still think as per my above post that running MP tv series scans etc and anything else that is going to choke the network is better off being done when MP isn't being used.A conclusion I have come to (not sure whether its right or not) is install a decent network, buy decent HDD's and store everything on dedicated drives.For me I'm going to test my client with the gigabit LAN for a while and see how things perform! I may look into investing into fibre optic and a high quality network switch to try and improve things further.</blockquote>

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