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Old October 2nd 13, 05:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
David H. Lipman
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Default A good HDTV tuner PCIe card?

From: "Paul"

Ant wrote:
On 10/2/2013 5:11 AM PT, Paul typed:

Another methodology is "networked tuners". These connect
to your Ethernet router or switch box. The idea behind
this, is no "low level driver" is needed for the tuner bits.
As a processor in that box takes care of it. The software
type you might use with this is DLNA based. They mention things
like Windows Media Center and MythTV.

"SiliconDust HDHomeRun - cable TV only version"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815345006

(Ridiculously priced version with ATSC)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815345010

(Reasonably priced ATSC from the same company)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815345007

I'm not sure why the middle one is so expensive.


Doesn't that require fast network? I only have a 100 Mb/sec Linksys
WRT54GL v1.1 router, with its latest stock firmware. Also, it is not that
stable (rare 1-2 seconds disconnections from rare reboots). That could be
a problem?


I think I'd test it first, before buying any more hardware. Maybe
there's enough of a buffer inside it, to ride out a 2 second outage.

*******

You can arrange a four port switch after your router, and see if
that helps. If the traffic is local to the switch, perhaps a reboot
of the router doesn't harm things. I have one of these to connect
my computers together, so transfers between the computers are faster.
It cost around $40 when I got it. Four locally purchased network cables
were 4*$10 and equal in cost to the switch, so don't neglect the cost
of cables when planning it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...gear%20gs 605

I don't think a router reboot would affect the switch, as long as the
switch traffic remained local.

modem ---- 100BT_router --- GbE_switch --- up to four computers

The capture speed of one tuner (at 19 mbit/sec) or round it to
3MB/sec, is not using a large portion of the 12.5MB/sec of 100BT.
So it should work OK. If you had a lot of tuners, then add
a GbE switch between source(s) and destination.

HTH,
Paul


If the Router has an E-Switch than the PC should be connected to it.

I recently dumped two Gig-E Switches and replaced them with 10/100 hubs due
to a severe degradation they introduced.

http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=85025

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