[mythtv-users] network card

jacek burghardt jaceksburghardt at gmail.com
Mon May 5 14:51:29 UTC 2014


I would recommend going with gigabit network you can bound interfaces also
in linux for more output. If we start watching 4K video than you may
need GA-6PXSVT but at that time 10 gigabit will be cheap.


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Wayne Roberts
> <wayne at therobertsfamily.eu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am in the process of shopping for my backend, and was wondering what
> > network card you "should" use (speed) ?? Is gigabit going to be fast
> enough
> > or should i push the envelope and go 10 gig?
>
> *Usually*, 1Gb/s networks are sufficient.
>
> You did not state what your services you backend is going to be supporting
> (especially if it will be a "shared" system).  For a BE, how many networked
> tuners, how many active frontends?  A HD stream usually fits in (less than)
> about 20Mb/s, so you could be recording from 10 simultaneous network
> tuners,
> and playing back concurrently to 10 frontends and still be at no more than
> 40%
> network utilization with a gigabit card on a dedicated BE (and likely much
> less,
> since most HD content is not 20Mb/s).  At those rates, your disk subsystem
> would probably need more attention than your network.
>
> As with all else, your mileage will vary.
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