Video straming not playing well since adding a switch

[Binkem]

Hi,

Last week I added a (gigabit) switch (actually it's a Linksys E3200 router not connected on the wan side, but just on the lan side, internet being accessed via the B3) between my B3 and my PlayOn mini network video player. Since then video playback is undoable. The video plays for about 1/2 second and then the machine seems to hang for 10-20 secs. Before adding the switch this worked fine. I cannot find a setting on either B3, PlayOn or router the makes this setup work. It might be that there is a problem between te B3 trying to send data with 1000 mbps and the Palyon trying to receive at 100 mbps.
Is there a way to limit the B3's lan speed to 100 mbps, just to see if this helps? Or does anyone know of another way to fix this?

Martijn

[RandomUsername]

You can probably use ethtool to to set the speed on the B3 - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-chan ... rnet-card/ but unless you made a typo I thought everything is running at 1 gig. If not, there will definitely be some overhead switching from 1 gig to 100 meg but not enough to effect video streaming like that. It could be an auto-neg issue. I've seen equipment not negotiate correctly resulting in very low speeds. Might be worth trying to set the B3 to 1 gig as well as 100 meg.

[Binkem]

My B3 is running at 1g, but the PlayOn has a 10/100 network card
If I use ethtool to set autoneg off and then set the speed to 100 mb full duplex the connection to my router is lost and I cannot access the B3 anymore.
I found that entering

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ethtool -s eth1 speed 100 duplex full autoneg on

Does solve the problem, but this downgrades the gigabit connection to my router to 100 mbit. Of course I would prefer it if the system automaticcaly recognises the 100 mbit connection on the other side of the router.