Theory -Bulk Network Transfers drive Crashes

[lolachampcar]

My very first experience with the HD200 was a bad one. It worked right out of the box then it stopped steaming data and started giving playback errors. I could browse the SageTV server interface just fine but could not playback any content.

I am now up to three HD200s and believe that bulk transfer of ripped DVDs from one machine on the network to the Sage server's media folders is causing my problem. I have to physically pull the power on each of the HD200s to get them to play content again even though each can see the Sage server and navigate the interface just fine. I think this problem is also related to Sage loosing the ability to tune any channels on my HDHR even though it "sees" both tuners just fine. Again, the Sage "browse" element works while the streaming element does not. I am not sure if it is a Sage problem or a switch problem although I have tried two different switches (DLink and HP).

My questions is - Has anyone else experienced flaky Sage behavior after bulk network traffic? Is anyone feeling brave enough out there to copy a two gig or so mpeg4 file from a non-Sage server PC to the Sage server's media folder to see if it crashes their HD200's playback capability? It would be silly if you were game to crash your HD200s to test my theory but it might be helpful to all.

Thanks,
Bill

[stanger89]

The only problem I've seen even remotely close to that is if I copy somthing big to or from my NAS while watching something off the NAS (eg copying a BD while watching one), I can overload my NAS and cause studders since my NAS can't keep up with the two operations, but that's it. I've never "crashed" my HD200's ability to play anything.

It really sounds like you've got a network problem. Quite possibly with the NIC in your server, maybe try something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_oh_product

[lolachampcar]

The new server I am putting in place has a 1 gig on board nic so I will be able to test the server nic theory shortly.

I will also try putting my wife's machine (the DVD ripper) in Sage as a media import directory and then scan it to move files over using Sage instead of the standard explorer way of moving them.