I am having a really odd issue.. I have a XBMCuntu on my HTPC (just upgraded to KODIunbtu), and when I stream a HD file from a my files server (Hyper-V Server 2012 Host, Windows Server 2012 R2 Guest), the movie buffers about every three minutes. I have watched on the network monitor and it seems to go steady for a while then spike up then spike down to around 6MB/s and that's when the buffering starts. Odd thing, I can watch movies from it on my main PC without any issue, when I copy files to it I'm getting around 130MB/s. My HTPC only has a 100Meg Network card, however when the files were on my FreeNAS box, I never had this issue and everything was smooth without any hiccups..
My only theory at this point, is that the network port on the server connected to a high end switch, is to fast for the 100 Meg card and it's sending it too much data too fast? I know that sounds like a stretch, but I don't really have anything else to go on at this point.. I disabled VM-q and that didn't fix anything, I did enable Jumbo Packets on the guest and that made the buffering faster.. I guess the only way I'll know if I get a 1Gig NIC for my HTPC..
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I am having a really odd issue.. I have a XBMCuntu on my HTPC (just upgraded to KODIunbtu), and when I stream a HD file from a my files server (Hyper-V Server 2012 Host, Windows Server 2012 R2 Guest), the movie buffers about every three minutes. I have watched on the network monitor and it seems to go steady for a while then spike up then spike down to around 6MB/s and that's when the buffering starts. Odd thing, I can watch movies from it on my main PC without any issue, when I copy files to it I'm getting around 130MB/s. My HTPC only has a 100Meg Network card, however when the files were on my FreeNAS box, I never had this issue and everything was smooth without any hiccups..
My only theory at this point, is that the network port on the server connected to a high end switch, is to fast for the 100 Meg card and it's sending it too much data too fast? I know that sounds like a stretch, but I don't really have anything else to go on at this point.. I disabled VM-q and that didn't fix anything, I did enable Jumbo Packets on the guest and that made the buffering faster.. I guess the only way I'll know if I get a 1Gig NIC for my HTPC..
Anyone have any ideas?
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