my mvp crashes and restart randomly

[pz1]

Some routers don't support media streaming so well, that's where you might want to look into which ones does. Mine does.

How/Where can we find out whether a specific router supports streaming media well? I own a Zyxel Prestige 334

We quite frequently have hickups and restarts of the MVP in 90% of the cases while changing from one channel to the next, or going back to the menu. It is hard to reproduce, and I do not see funny things in the logs. My GBPVR server is 20meters(cable) away from the router. The MVP is about 70 meters(cable) (passing two Linksys switches) away from the router.

[pz1]

Both of you are outside the USA

Well the US of A is not the only place where one can buy high quality stuff...
From your reponse I gather that what you say is based on personal experience with a couple of routers? From your earlier response I thought there was some place where I could check the quality of my router w.r.t. streaming media. Apology for my misinterpretation.

[pz1]

There are network testers out there like Qcheck LAN and Network Performance tester tool for Windows XP. It's freeware tool.

Thanks, I'll give it a try

[HtV]

@ Pz1: You could try to get a long network cable, just to bypass your sitches as a test. 70 mtrs is quite long (+ 2 switches). You must have checked for the cables (not) being parallel to 220v-cables. And you probably did make the cables yourself, did you use the right pairing in the cables? Probably things you already did.

[spyder40]

I was experiencing crashes and changed to the following dongle. Since then I have had 0 crashes on a D3A.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=20148

[skippy_nz]

I was experiencing crashes and changed to the following dongle. Since then I have had 0 crashes on a D3A.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=20148

my mvp is a h3 revision - will this help ?

also im using a netgear wgr614 wireless router - but my mvp is wired straight to it with only a 5m cat 6 network cable - i made it myself - and ensured that my pairing etc was all correct - the first time i thought arh who cares as long as its the same both ends - but my pc i put here first wouldnt connect to the network even though there was a link light - so i made sure that i made the change to the correct pairing.

[mvallevand]

my mvp is a h3 revision - will this help ?

When you hard reboot your mvp by undoing the power, do you get one of these log entries?

VERBOSE [6] Received MVP TFTP request: dongle.bin.ver

Martin

[skippy_nz]

Can you try wired router as you main then use the wireless as access point. I don't recommend connecting anything like the MVP to your wireless router wired ports. I don't know about the H3 firmware, E1 has problems..

D1, (2) D3A, E1 is what I have

Have you all tried running the MVP Server that comes with GBPVR...

nah i dont have another router to put in it place.

what do you mean mvp server with gbpvr - is that what the autostart is ?

[mvallevand]

Can you try wired router as you main then use the wireless as access point. I don't recommend connecting anything like the MVP to your wireless router wired ports. I don't know about the H3 firmware, E1 has problems..

Tipstir, I don't think one can make a general recommendations on wireless routers like that. I've got an E1M running off one just fine. Overall the quality of consumer grade routers seems to be decreasing, but I don't think that the wifi ones are any worse.

The basic problem that I know of with routers is really in the switch because some can't handle the fact that the Hauppauge dongle flips from full duplex to half duplex.

Martin

[skippy_nz]

I was experiencing crashes and changed to the following dongle. Since then I have had 0 crashes on a D3A.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=20148

Spyder - and everyone else that has the issues ive had - i grabbed the Dongle from this version the spyder mentioned and so far everything is working ok - touch wood.... been a couple of days and i think the wife is happy and i havent noticed my mvp reboot either - so im putting it down to that.

Sub not sure if you want to put this version into your next release or maybe as a extra dongle that people can choose from ?

cheers for everyones help
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