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MythTv

100 Mbit should be a good enough connection for media playback.

Contents 1 MythTv Skipless network playback 1.1 In General 1.2 Samba 1.2.1 cifs 1.2.2 smbfs 1.2.3 fusesmb 1.3 NFS 1.4 Specifics for my toshiba laptop

MythTv Skipless network playback

In General

The following will show RX and TX errors:

ifconfig -a

Samba

Apparently linux kernel provides "smbfs" and "cifs" and they are different. There is also a fusesmb

cifs

Use this instead of smbfs!!!

See: MythTvCifs

Main website:

http://linux-cifs.samba.org/

Apparently this is used by "mount.cifs"

smbfs

smbfs is broken and unsupported. DO NOT USE IT!!!

See:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920

fusesmb

probably not very fast

NFS

In Ubuntu there are 3 nfs server packages:

nfs-kernel-server   - use this one.  It supports nfsv4
nfs-user-server     - slower than nfs-kernel-server.  implemented in user space
unfs3               - another user space nfs server

Specifics for my toshiba laptop

sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 6M

6M seems to work fine.