Petr Nejedly wrote: > P. van Gaans wrote: > > >>>Hmm, well, iirc it was a 8mbit stream, but I'm not sure if I also tried >>>a 3mbit stream, but I bet that still wouldn't have worked reliably. Not >>>much difference anyway. Because no, not my switch, dvbstream needs >>>replacement. Multicast simply sucks, what you want are peer to peer >>>connections. My switch has no problems handling these at 100mbit. No >>>SoHo switch has. But multicast? There's a reason IPTV ISP's don't switch >>>you know.. For Multicast you should use satellites, DVB-T transmitters >>>or (coaxial) VHF/UHF cable infrastructures. Not UTP with SoHo switches! > > > > So, well, your problem lies elsewhere. You probably have some slow (10baseT) > device connected (VoIP adapter, old DreamBox, network printer adapter, > whatever), or a wireless AP with enabled mcast routing. > > I have no problem multicasting nearly complete TS over my small LAN, but only > after I moved my old VoIP phone to different subnet so mcast doesn't reach it. > And also after setting mcast_rate on my wifi AP to 54mbit (default is 1mbit as > wifi mcast has no MAC-level acknowledge channel available). > > I'm also able to reliably mcast >10mbit into a busy large corporate LAN (thing > hundred of switches), but only after properly setting central switches to > support IGMP snooping, so the traffic doesn't reach older printers. > > Nenik > > > That's right, my Freesco box has a 10mbit ethernet card. But I'm not planning on replacing it. I don't know about my WiFi. Anyway, I wouldn't use multicast in nearly any home situation. Too sensitive to older/wifi devices. And usually there is more than enough bandwidth to send all the desired channels p2p over a home network. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
