Stopping Network Issues by using a switch?

[kuruption213]

Hello,
I am experiencing issues with choppy video on recorded tv and with stuttering video on live tv on my televisions using 2 XBox 360s as extenders.

My setup is an a HP Ivy Bridge with 8 GB RAM, Ceton Quad Core, and Verizon FIOS as my cable/internet provider. I have done quite a bit of things to try to and remedy this issue after doing some research including disabling network throttling, changing the link speed to 100MBPS full duplex. What i have done for recorded tv is turned off Show Analyzer for commercial skip which helps with the recorded shows but ultimately would like to have a solution where I can turn that back on.

My question is should I try to add a switch to the setup in order to increase the efficiency of the data transfer between the Media Center PC and the Extender playing live tv or a recorded show?

Any help would be appreciated, just out of ideas at this point.

[Venom51]

What does the network look like now? Can you give us a simple drawing? Are you relying solely on the FIOS box as the interconnect point for the HTPC and extenders?

[kuruption213]

Venom, thanks for the reply. Yes I'm currently just using the FIOS gateway as the go between my extenders and my HTPC.

[lithium630]

I had the same issues. I tried a few cheap switches before finally getting an HP Procurve 1410. I very rarely have network issues now.

[DanH]

Since it is likely that the PC supports Gigabit on its Ethernet port, I recommend upgrading to a gigabit switch at the same time. I just bought and am quite happy with a D-Link GO-SW-8GE switch. It is supporting up to 3 streams from an HD Homerun Prime (cablecard tuners) and 2 extenders. I have had no problems with this configuration.

You will connect all of your devices to the new switch and then add 1 additional cable connecting the new switch to the Verizon box for internet access.

[Venom51]

Venom, thanks for the reply. Yes I'm currently just using the FIOS gateway as the go between my extenders and my HTPC.

A good switch with some descent sized buffers could indeed improve the situation. Sometimes finding the per port buffer specs is difficult.

The HP Procurves are good.

I had good luck with the Dell Powerconnect switches.

Go gigabit..

[Crash2009]

Dell PowerConnect 5324 has been good to me. http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... =11&t=2149

[kuruption213]

Thank you all for the reply. I will research all of the switches mentioned in this thread and add this to my setup in order to resolve my network issues.

[LuckyDay]

Just curious, when you do the network test on the 360 what kind of results are you getting? Does it say the network is performing fine?

[kuruption213]

Yes the network speed according to the Xbox test is performing just fine.

[shortcut3d]

I have good luck with the Ubiquiti ToughSwitch.