[mythtv-users] HDhomeRun hookup question?

[William Munson]

Paul Bender wrote:
> William Munson wrote:
>   
>> I am getting ready to buy a hdhomerun but have a question to put to the 
>> group.
>>
>> I run a wireless network at home (Apartment, no hole cutting allowed) 
>> and expect that it will not have enough bandwidth to support 2 channel 
>> recording off the hdhomerun thru the wireless. Is it possible to hook up 
>> the box directly to my backend machine via a dedicated ethernet card and 
>> a crossover cable? That would give a 100mbit dedicated channel for 
>> recording.
>>
>> Sound like it would work?
>>     
>
> That should work fine. HDHomeRun DHCP's for its address. Therefore, you 
> will want to run a DHCP server on your MythTV backend and bind it to the 
> IP address or Ethernet interface of the dedicated Ethernet card.
>
>   
Great! No problem running a dhcp server. Time to get out the plastic.