Some questions about the HD-300

[madpoet]

You need to set the sectors to something bigger than the default if your point is to record vido files to it. 512 maybe. Will give you better performance and storage. I am getting just over 6gb per hour on my HDPVR right now.

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by dida2010

Hi
Thanks for your help
Live in a condo , i can run one long cable between the rooms , and add a switch next to each TV.
Does one cat5e hold all the streaming being used simultaneously , no buffering?


Or

is it better for quality purpose to get 3 cat5e, between the main Router conected giga to my pc, to each hd 300?

1 cable will be fine. Unless you are using multiple NICs inside your PC, you will only have one Cat5e cable coming out of your PC in the first place, so splitting out to 3 long cables won't help anything.

The best method really depends on how your apartment is laid out and what devices you have to connect on the network.

For a simple network, I would do as follows:

<-Coax Cable-> to [Cable Modem / Router] to <-Cat5e-> to [GB Ethernet Switch]
Then connect from the switch to your Server PC, Extenders, etc. with one Cat5e cable going to each device.

If you have a bunch of stuff on one end of your house and a bunch of stuff on the other end of your house, put a GB Ethernet switch in each location and have one long Cat5e cable to connect the two switches.