How would you set this up?

[cpals]

Okay, I have two computers setup right now. One is the server and one is a client. The client is getting used a lot and can bog down the network at times and makes online gameplaying not too good.

The PCs:
-=1=-
P4 3.2
1.5 Ram
2 PVR 150s
Geforce 6800
160 SATA Hard Drive

-=2=-
2.4 Northwood Celeron
1G Ram
No TV Tuner
Geforce 6600 GT
300 PATA Hard Drive


#2 Computer is currently in the living room and gets used as a client for tv viewing. #1 is used for viewing television in my room and also has my storage of divx movies, pictures, music, etc.

Would it be best to keep it the way it is now with the client/server setup? Or would it work good to put one tv tuner in each computer and use them separately, but share both hard drives so they can share resources?

[stanger89]

Client/server is definitely the way to go, separating them would only cause more agrivation since you'd have separate favorites and histories on both.

What's your network, the client shouldn't be bogging anything down.

[SHS]

Well if 1 is your game system as well that can slow thing down when it used as SageTV server as well.

I would say this way being you don't need a CPU power for SageTV server
The PCs:
-=1=- client your bebroom
P4 3.2
1.5 Ram
Geforce 6800
160 SATA Hard Drive

-=2=- server living room
2.4 Northwood Celeron
1G Ram
Geforce 6600 GT
2 PVR 150s
300 PATA Hard Drive

Mine set like this
-=1=- server
P4 1.6 Northwood
512 Ram
Geforce MX4000
WinTV-PVR 500MCE
(3) 250 Hard Drive
(1) CDRom

-=2=- client
P4 2.8 Prescott
1.0 GB
Geforce 6800
80 Hard Drive
(1) DVD wirter

-=3=- client
P4 2.4 Prescott Celeron D 320
1.0 GB
Geforce 6800
80 Hard Drive
(1) DVDRom