a little description. I have upgraded my machines ripper, Unraid server and htpc to 1Gb network. When I had the 100Mb network I never experienced any freezing or audio drop out when viewing movies on the htpc. Now, I get dropouts and slight freezing at least a couple times per movie. I reconfigured the Nvidia firewall on the htpc at first it would lock the movie up completely.

 

I installed a Linksys eg005 1Gb switch. I have tried large packets with no luck.

 

Any thoughts.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave in Canada

Try turning the sowftware firewall off completely on the HTPC to see if it makes any difference?  Presumably, it's nothing to do with the rip itself, that is, it's not always in the same place in the film (movie ) where you get the drop outs?

 

Are you ripping to unRaid on machine A and playing it back on Machine B (the HTPC)?  If so, try playing it back on machine A to see if that is the same, worse or better?  Is unRaid doing anything else whilst serving the film to the HTPC? (like serving other streams at the same time or a rip is being written)  Are the network cards in all 3 machines decent Gigabit cards and not cheap cards? (branded 3com/Linksys etc. as opposed to generic no-name cards)

 

HTH!

 

Matt

Dave,

 

I am running a Linksys SD2005 five port Gigabit switch and have had no problems with the connection between my HTPC Gigabit NIC and my unRaid server when streaming a movie.

 

Are you sure that the Linksys eg005 switch can handle jumbo packets? I know that my Linksys SD2005 cannot handle jumbo packets. Also, you may have to set a switch in the unRaid OS via telnet to enable jumbo packets on the server.

 

Gigabit switches by nature run quite warm due to their switching and transmission speeds. Make sure that it has plenty of ventilation when used for extended periods of time such as when you are streaming a movie off of your unRaid server to your HTPC.

 

Just a thought.

 

Regards,

TCIII

thanks for the feedback. I ended up switching the HTPC back to 100Mbs and it seems to be fine now. I may have to string a new cable from the rack to the living room. I think that run maybe Cat5 not 5e.

 

TCIII I am not running jumbo frames, I tried and it lock up the network between my ripper and my file server. they are 3 com cards or what is on the MSI K8N Neo board that is in my ripper machine. I will do further investigations. The HTPC is a Gbyte board. 6250 / 430 chipset. Cannot recall the number. I am going to upgrade that system to BLU-RAY anyhow as soon as prices come down a bit.

 

Regards,

 

Dave in Canada