What Router do you use with your MVP

[mdnttoker]

I've read various anecdotes on this board regarding pariticular routers being better than others, or some not working at all.

Could you post what router you are using (brand and model), and any issues with your MVP?

I am currently running a Netgear WRT54GL 1.1. I could not get the MVP to boot across the router and powerline routers without loading Sveasoft firmware and enabling Spanning Tree Protocol though.

What is everyone else using?

-Dan

[malbec]

NetGear WGT624 v.2 with no problems

[sainswor99]

CUrrently using 2 Belkin F5D7230-4 routers (one in bridge mode) with no issues.

[ybrew]

I've got a microsoft router along with a Asus 24/2 port switch (24 100meg ports/2 gigabit ports).

I really need to get a gigabit card for my server. for now, everything is going through the 24 100 meg ports.

Aside from the switch, I don't think anything is connected to the router.

[KeithTX]

Netgear 614 (media specific lan) and 624 (general lan), though if I were to do it over again I would have gone with a linksys or d-link.

[doc]

Netgear DG834G with wired MVP's and all working fine.

[rtengvad]

Draytek Vigor 2800VG

Apart from a double image once in a while and some dvds not playing properly (and Im not sure that is a router problem) my setup works fine.

rtengvad

[stevech]

Originally Posted by ybrew

I've got a microsoft router along with a Asus 24/2 port switch (24 100meg ports/2 gigabit ports).

I really need to get a gigabit card for my server. for now, everything is going through the 24 100 meg ports.
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With a lightly loaded 100BT home LAN, and with the high overhead of WIndows NTFS shares, can one really realize the potential of 1000BT? Is file transfer really much faster than 100BT?

[ybrew]

Originally Posted by stevech

With a lightly loaded 100BT home LAN, and with the high overhead of WIndows NTFS shares, can one really realize the potential of 1000BT? Is file transfer really much faster than 100BT?

I don't know.

I have 3 computers (office PC, laptop, sage server), an ethernet printer, plus 4 mvps connected to the switch, along with my vonage ata. I don't think I'm bandwidth limited now, however I do have 2 gigabit ports on the router. It would seem to make sense to give one of the ports to the sage server. I may not benefit from it, but it does seem like the best use of that port.

[flavius]

D-Link DGL-4300, one wired, one wireless MVP.

Originally Posted by stevech

With a lightly loaded 100BT home LAN, and with the high overhead of WIndows NTFS shares, can one really realize the potential of 1000BT? Is file transfer really much faster than 100BT?

Sure. Try moving around a 6 gig file. You can actually wait for it. I get about 350. It's all about proper shielding (I was told). Which I don't care about.

If you're on your own, you don't really need it. Maybe you want it. But if you have a bunch of kids running Sage and a file server, there's no way around it.
And the easiest way is to limit bandwidth consumption of potential requestors - by keeping them out of the gigabit backbone.

[blade]

Originally Posted by stevech

With a lightly loaded 100BT home LAN, and with the high overhead of WIndows NTFS shares, can one really realize the potential of 1000BT? Is file transfer really much faster than 100BT?

When I first added a 1000Mbit router and NICs I transfered a couple of files to test the speed and I averaged around 400Mbits/sec (50MB/sec). I was limited by my hard drives which have a sustained rate of around 52MB/sec. In comparision a 100Mbit/sec is around 12.5MB/sec not counting overhead. I'm still using my old Cat-5e and haven't had any problems.

[ybrew]

good points.

I rip my DVDs/CDs to a desktop and copy them over the network to my sage server.

Moving both the sage server and the desktop pc to gigabit would help with that task for sure.

[MattHelm]

DGL-4100 Works just fine.


Only time I had a problem was when somehow my server switched the the placeshifter/client server off. After turning it back on, all was fine.

I've never done any true measurements, but love my Gigabit system. Sure help when moving 5GB files around!

[zzmystique]

I have 2 x wireless MVP and 1 x wired MVP and I have had to wire all 3.

Original Router - DLink G604T Wireless -intermittent poor preformance of wirelss especially when both wireless MVPs were running at the same time.

New Router - Netgear DG834GT - issue where the wireless MVP's could not obtain an IP Address. Occassionally the MVP's get stuck at the "Loading SageTV Media Centre, Please Wait..." screen.

Both Routers - Wired all 3 MVP consistently work well, the picture quality is excellent.

[judy2304]

A number of people on this post have said that they aren't having any problems with the MediaMVP. I have to ask if any of these are wireless. Has anyone had consistent success using a wireless router?

[flavius]

Mine (Rev 2.05 w/ Sage 6.0.19) works just fine with a D-LINK DGL 4300. However, you want to keep older wireless devices, like anything 802.11b or such things, out of your wireless network to avoid having to run your router in *mixed* mode.

[hitme]

I am running a wired cat 6 network in the house. The switches I use are netgear gs116, I have 2 of them. They feed a PC, running a amd 1800, with smoothwall as the firewall and router. I have NO problems with the MVP.

[stevech]

Originally Posted by flavius

...However, you want to keep older wireless devices, like anything 802.11b or such things, out of your wireless network to avoid having to run your router in *mixed* mode.

You can run the old 11b clients (if you cannot upgrade them) by adding a WiFi access point (or a w-router configurable as an access point). Put it on a different SSID and channel (among 1, 6 or 11), and connect it to your router. Configure the 11b clients with the same SSID/WEP.