[mythtv-users] Zotac IONITX-B-E Network Issues

Greg Grotsky spikeygg at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 07:48:06 UTC 2010


Just purchased one of these bad boys from newegg and I'm getting lots of
prebuffering pauses while watching videos streamed from the backend.  I
noticed that the pauses only occur during network streaming activity, if I
rewind the video and play it (from cache) it's perfect.  Then I noticed that
ifconfig was reporting significant amounts of errors (22389!):

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:2e:26:4f:97
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::201:2eff:fe26:4f97/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1445943 errors:22389 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:22389
          TX packets:970314 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1918270735 (1.7 GiB)  TX bytes:81217659 (77.4 MiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000

The error number skyrockets as I watch a video (especially while it is
giving me prebuffering pauses).  I have a usb-to-ethernet device and using
the same cat5e cable on this usb ethernet port results in smooth, error-less
transmissions.  It's looking like this is a problem with my specific
motherboard.  Has anyone else with one of these Zotac IONITX deals seen
anything like this?  I'd hate to return it only to have the same issue, I'd
like to find out that it's something in my configuration.

-Greg
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