Hi all, I am looking for a bit of advice on some home networking issues.
I have 2 WinXp machines, a print server, and my D-LINK DI-524 upstairs on an AOPEN 8port 10/100 Hub. Hub is connected to a CISCO 1538 8 port CISCO MicroHub in the basement, which is supporting 1 win2k, and 3 Debian Boxen, 2 of which are Mythtv MBE/SBE, and my mvpmc. MVPMC is talking to Mythtv 0.19 BE, via NFS. I have noticed at times that I seem to be getting a fair amount of collisions. I have also noticed at times that my mvpmc stutters during playback, but I wasn't sure if that was due to network bandwidth issues, or machine load issues. To help with load issues, I have replaced my AMD SocketA XP 2700+ with a S939 Opteron 144. What I am wondering is, would I get any better network performance if I were to replace my 1538 hub with a 1548 Managed or Unmanaged Switch. And, if so, which to choose (What's the advantage/disadvantage of managed vs unmanaged switches, besides the cost?) Thanks for any input and/or advice others would be willing to share. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
