What happens if you do a software bridge instead of the hardware switch?

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Tim Warnock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Not sure whether others have come across this or not but I've been
> tracking down a strange issue at home.
>
> I have a couple of AppleTV 2 units and a couple of kids DVDs saved on a
> HDD so the kids can watch TV and we don't have to worry about them damaging
> the discs.
>
> Anyway, the ATV2 units are 100mbps, every other device on my network is
> 1000mbps.
>
> "streaming" on the ATV2 was buffering continuously. After much diagnosis I
> eventually put a gigabit netgear switch between the ATV2 and the RB751G and
> the buffering issues went away.
>
> I'm not sure whether others have come across it but it would appear that
> the 751G switchchip might not have very good buffers for different speed
> ports.
>
> Anyone else observed something similar?
>
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