[mythtv-users] hdhomerun lost stream from mythtv

[Rick]

William Munson wrote:

>>   
> I was seeing these kinds of issues with mine when the hdhr was attached 
> to my router. I suspect that the router itself was dropping the 
> connection, perhaps as part of refreshing the dhcp server. I ended up 
> with the same solution as Brad. I moved the hdhr and myth backend system 
> to a dedicated dumb switch and converted all of my network myth systems 
> to fixed addresses. Previously I was using dhcp to assign "fixed" 
> address. Have not had a problem since.
> 
> PS - The rest of my network is still dhcp so that my kids friends can 
> come over and attach to the network to play games. Its also possible 
> that the traffic volume of the neighborhood gaming parties was causing 
> problems. Have you ever seen how much traffic 6 teenagers playing 
> warcraft creates? LOL, it will swamp your network.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> 

I too am using DHCP with fixed addresses so I'll play around with that a 
little.  My kids are at the 'webkinz' stage of gaming so hopefully that 
isn't causing too much traffic :)

My router is a Linksys WRT54g running firmware from dd-wrt.  I'll look 
into what I can tweak there that could have an impact.

On a side note, I'm curious why Myth doesn't realize the stream is lost. 
  Do you think I should open a defect?

Thanks for the suggestions.

Rick