October 6, 201213 yr Author After a full power cycle reset on all the network hardware all the way down to the switches my read speeds are now about 10-11MB/sec now which is the fastest it will go with the Dune. For playing around I enabled the Gigabit experimental option and was able to get 16MB/sec on the read test consistently but when playing the high bitrate bird90 file the player would lock/freeze up. I of course disabled the option now. For some reason, even with my read test speeds at 11MB/sec I still cannot play either bird test file properly with my Dune. On the other hand, my Popcorn A-210 can play the bird60 file just fine and almost plays the bird90 file ok too. I'm pretty sure the Popcorn Hour players have much better buffering technique or maybe it is just a faster machine with more memory all together. 11MB/sec = 88Mbit/sec
October 7, 201213 yr The dune has a 100Mbit nic, so it will max out at 11MB/s... With smb i can get max. 8 MB/s, with NFS i get the full 11 MB/s on a read test. The 60Mbit file plays fine, the 90 Mbit file is too much, once over 78Mbit it starts to stutter. My guess is that 78 Mbit + some overhead maxes out the 100 Mbit connection, OR the dune's cpu can't pull it off... Same here, I have a Dune Base 3.0.
October 8, 201213 yr Author The dune has a 100Mbit nic, so it will max out at 11MB/s... With smb i can get max. 8 MB/s, with NFS i get the full 11 MB/s on a read test. The 60Mbit file plays fine, the 90 Mbit file is too much, once over 78Mbit it starts to stutter. My guess is that 78 Mbit + some overhead maxes out the 100 Mbit connection, OR the dune's cpu can't pull it off... Same here, I have a Dune Base 3.0. That's why my next media player upgrade will be that Popcorn A-400. Doesn't matter anyway since Dune hasn't come out with anything to even buy. Yea, they advertise and show new hardware coming up, but when a year passes and nothing even coming up is pretty lame. I'm pretty excited about the new A-400 anyway. No Cinavia and support for 3D. 3D isn't my thing but something new to play with.
October 8, 201213 yr I tried the bird files and found the same thing. On my D1 I can play the 60 fine, but the 90 stutters somewhat. I tried both SMB and NFS.
October 10, 201213 yr Author Playing the 60mbit file is pretty good. Most can't play the 90mbit file...that's just too high. I mean 11MB/sec=88mbit. And that's the fastest that the Dune can handle...the buffering technique comes into play, but I don't think the Dune has such good buffering. I know the Popcorn models are much better at buffering.
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