Advice Needed Formuler F1 Twin Satellite Tuner

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Hi all,

Firstly a massive thanks to the many of you here who helped me transition to the world of Enigma2. To say I was like a lost sheep to begin with is an understatement :D

I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit as I was finding that streaming some feeds over LAN via Openwebif would stutter every X seconds, to the point where it was unwatchable. After changing the router to a gigabit one, I now want to upgrade my receiver to one that has a gigabit LAN port. Currently I'm using a Vu+ Zero which only has a 100Mbps ethernet port and although I haven't yet tested, I doubt it will stream a feed of 42Mbps smoothly unless I upgrade to one that has a 1Gbps port.

I was looking on WOS and noticed they are selling this receiver at a reduced price of £79.00 at the moment. It has gigabit ethernet which is my main want but no mention of blind scan which is my second necessity. Is anyone using this receiver to confirm if it has it or not, or just in general to comment on the receiver as a whole? Whilst the VU+ Zero I'm using is a basic zapper, it does have a very nifty tuner which is able to pick up very weak feeds.

Formuler F1 Twin Satellite Tuner Linux Enigma 2 Receiver - 3rd Spare Tuner Slot for DVB-S/S2 or DVB-C/T2
 
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I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit as I was finding that streaming some feeds over LAN via Openwebif would stutter every X seconds, to the point where it was unwatchable. After changing the router to a gigabit one, I now want to upgrade my receiver to one that has a gigabit LAN port.
I would advise you to not lay too much weight in the 100 Mbps vs 1000 Mbps question.
The 100 Mbps should in normal installations be more than enough for streaming feeds over Ethernet.
It is much more likely that the receiver software is a problem, or the cabling may have kinks or bad connections.

You have to contrast this with commercial IPTV delivery, where we have to deliver a full, glitch-free transport stream to a set-top box, and usually in something like 8-12 Mbps (true payload == 4.5 Mbps).
Without dropped frames, stutter, or anything like this.

You may indeed get better performance from your new switch, but this may not be down to the 100/1000 issue, but maybe more down to device failures, or more common, software f*ck*ps...
 
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