Recording via cifs with errors

Sinobi

Hi all

Recently I bought my 7020 (second hand), and it had a 200GB harddisk in it.
I have been recording and playing back on the harddisk a few times, all with success.
Yesterday the disk died on me (guess the machine gets too hot).
Today I therefor followed some of the guides on setting up a CIFS share on my XP server.
The setup went fine and I could mount and record.
BUT
When I playback the recording (either on the XP server or the 7020),
it plays like 2 seconds, then jump 5-8 seconds, plays 2 second again, jumps 5-8 seconds ect.
Why is this happening?

I have searched and found nothing.
Only one thread talked about that this could happen when you record coded channels via CIFS.
I therefor tried recording a FTA, but it showed the same problems.
Network is 100Mbit on a switch with no other traffic.
7020 is with PLI ioLite image.

Hope someone can help....
Best ect.
Henrik

HB13DISH

Hard Disks are dead cheap nowadays, so why don't you replace your old HDD with a new one?
Just make sure it is IDE and not SATA when you go to the shop.
(this is what I need for my present receiver, not sure about the 7020S)
I use a ventillator to cool my 7000S, so try that if you don't want the box to get hot.

Sinobi

I know, but not really the solution I am looking for,
as I have around 3 terabytes of harddisk space "floating" around on my LAN,
I could just as well use that, at get rid of the dreambox noise in the livingroom.
The noise is anoying the mrs. so an additional blower (even lownoise) will be over the hill.

Henrik

Sinobi

I'm beginning to think that this may be related to a low speed on my dreambox netcard.
This because viewing the received channel over the LAN on a PC with either VLC or one of the dreambox managedment programs give me the same playback carateristics.

Any ideas on how I can test the speed of my dreambox LAN connection?

Henrik

Sinobi

Just fell over an old thread about changing two capasitors related to the networking chip.
Thread states that if 7020 is an old model it has a Philips tuner rather than an Alps inside, and these old models had problems with very low network speed.
_http://www.pli-images.org/modules/wiki/index.php?wakka=DM7020Lan

A "ping xxx.xxx.xxx -t -l 26000" confirms that I have the problem (and I have also confirmed that I have the Philips tuner inside)
Actually I have to go below "ping xxx.xxx.xxx -t -l 512" to avoid timeout.
Will find some capasitors and solder them in to see if I can fix the problem.

Henrik