Slow MVP UI

[Alfiegerner]

All in all I am really really pleased with the Sage MVP. My only gripe is the slowness of the UI when there are a lot of objects to render. For me this mainly affects the tv guide and the Music and Photo sections. In the music and photo sections for instance there is at least a 5 second delay between remote press and the UI responding. The tv guide is a little better but still difficult to use.

Are there any settings I can use to try and speed up the UI?

[dirtboy]

These registry settings seem to help with the Hauppauge original server software. It might help with SageTV too. I have it attached and summarized below:
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REGEDIT4


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"TcpWindowSize"=dword:000f4240
"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000001

[bobvoeh]

These registry settings seem to help with the Hauppauge original server software. It might help with SageTV too.

I can confirm that it helps with Sage too.

[joe123]

How fast are these units (SageTV Media Extenders) if you have a fast PC server and all rooms hard wired networked together with ethernet on a router.

I mean, will I notice any difference in speed on my SageTV Media Extender than if I was sitting in front of my SageTV PC server?

[MrD]

If depends on what your network setup is. It depends on how much traffic will be on that network. It depends on the recording quality set on the server.

Do you have a switch connected network, or is it a hub?

Do you have a combined router/switch or router/hub?

A dedicated switch and dedicated router will be superior to a hub or router/hub in terms of amount traffic the network supports.

A hub will broadcast packets to every node, increasing the probability of packet collisions.

A switch "routes" packets to their destination node. The switch will greatly reduce collisions, this allows for higher packet flow.

As long as the network is not saturated and the server PC is not consumed, the MVP should be ok on a wired network.

A DVD quality stream takes 5-9Mbits of bandwidth. Ok for a 100Mbit network, not so good for a 10Mbit network.

-MrD

[joe123]

If depends on what your network setup is. It depends on how much traffic will be on that network. It depends on the recording quality set on the server.


Thanks for the feedback. I have a D-LINK DI-624 Router. It is not Gigabit. All Rooms have hard wire Ethernet.

With a network solely dedicated to SageTV using the 2.0GB per hour recording setting, how many recorded movies can I stream to SageTV Media extenders without pauses?

[bobvoeh]

Thanks for the feedback. I have a D-LINK DI-624 Router. It is not Gigabit. All Rooms have hard wire Ethernet.

With a network solely dedicated to SageTV using the 2.0GB per hour recording setting, how many recorded movies can I stream to SageTV Media extenders without pauses?

I have one MVP Hardwired and one MVP wireless and I can stream to both units at the 3.2GB per hour recording setting without any problems.