NetGear GA311 GigaBit PCI Adapter

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:33:41 -0800 (PST), EdwardATeller
wrote:


Thanks, but I returned the equipment. The application was to play Hi-
Def video files over the network. That probably means using Win XP
file transfer, not FTP. The videos just didn't play smoothly, so my
thoughts about setting up my DVR in the basement, and serving up the
files to the living room, have faded away for now.


You haven't mentioned what the bitrate is on those HD
videos, but the roughly 8MB/s any 100Mb NIC can attain
should give most common final output (not lossless or raw)
video enough bandwidth. IOW, it probably wasn't the lan
making the video play choppy, though if processing power was
marginal, a little extra overhead during network transfers
could make things worse for the processor to handle the
load.

On Feb 27, 6:06 pm, kony wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:33:41 -0800 (PST), EdwardATeller

wrote:
Thanks, but I returned the equipment. The application was to play Hi-
Def video files over the network. That probably means using Win XP
file transfer, not FTP. The videos just didn't play smoothly, so my
thoughts about setting up my DVR in the basement, and serving up the
files to the living room, have faded away for now.

You haven't mentioned what the bitrate is on those HD
videos, but the roughly 8MB/s any 100Mb NIC can attain
should give most common final output (not lossless or raw)
video enough bandwidth. IOW, it probably wasn't the lan
making the video play choppy, though if processing power was
marginal, a little extra overhead during network transfers
could make things worse for the processor to handle the
load.

The bitrate for HD videos varies a lot. One was about 8,000 Kb/s and
another was about 17,000 Kb/s, as reported by the statistics in Media
Player Classic. The videos file-transfer faster than the time it
takes to play them, so clearly it isn't a straight function of the
transfer rate. In any case, the gigabit equipment I bought didn't
work out of the box, so I took it back.