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Re: Home Video Server?
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Home Video Server?
- From: Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:49:26 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Mark McCall <mark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> What sort of bandwidth would this take up over your LAN?
>
> M.
100Mb Full Duplex switched handles it nicely ;)
The video streming rate for reasonable quality DivX encoded stuff is
just a tad over a meg a second, pushing 10Mb shared to the edge, but
well within Fast Ethernet shared.
FE Switched is so sweet for the house, it's incredible. I use an FS108
Netgear Auto-sensing Switch in our home network, and it has been
>brilliant< I don't think we have ever topped out the switch itself,
even with a LAN Party going on.
Most extreme torture yet has got to be Four guys playing Mechwarrior
Four, whilst another two install the game over the wire from the
server, and the TV machine is playing "Simpsons" from the night
before,
also coming from the server.
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>+++
Ian R Lowe. Director, Wintermute Consultancy Ltd.
e-mail: ian@xxxxxxx
Onward and Upward! Towards Ascension!
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