Media Streaming over the local network issue ?

Hello ,

I have few computers at home and i created one computer as home theater pc and second pc as file sharing and nas

PC 1: Home theater pc
PC 2: Home files and NAS server and more

PC 1:
AMD 3 Tri core 4GB ram Graphic card , TV Tuner with remote and ssd drive

PC 2: AMD Atlon Quad Core AM3 , 16 GB ram , Gforce 210 graphic card , ausu sat 3.0 control and all AM 3+ features 970 chip set and 1 160 GB Hard drive for OS windows 7 enterprise and 5 ( 2TB Hard drives ) and 1 1TB Hard drive all between 32 MB and 64 MB ... NO SSD

Network:
Asus Routor 1GB all across
CAT 6 and CAT 7 eithernet cables
1GB Switch
1GB nics on all computers
Docs 3.0 Cable Modem

Issue:
when i try to stream media files ... WMV , DVI , DVIX , MKV H264 , and other format files all in HD 1080p and 720P and HD Sound ... i get hicups or latency in playback or windows media player will not respond ... i have k-lit codecs 32bit and 64bit installed and supporting Blu-ray i have power dvd and win DVD 11 and Windows media center properly setup with tv tuner and remote control

all pc are wired connected , firewall off on all pc , windows files and printer shirring is on and Home Network is setup so i am able to see all my pc and devices and able to transfer files between computers with no problems sometime i am able to transfer files at 85 MB/s to 120 MB/s but still media streaming is not working properly ... i tried for test to use media player classic and other software like VLC same results

I have tried this setup before but it failed because i did not have proper setup but now i have all networking gears , Hardware , and software and nice home setup

Meida streaming on the routor is on ... and firewall is off on the routor for local connection

GUP Power need to be in Media center pc has been fix with brad new DDr5 1GB 775 chip graphic card with HDMI connections and sound is via HDMI to Samsung 120 hrz HDTV LCD and for extra gpu i added gforce 210 on files server but results are all negitive on Media streaming and watching movies from one center place like my PC 2 which has 11TB + 160 GB 32MB Hard drive ..

Both computer are supper fast and have win7 ultmate and enterprise and my other pc are file server and second media center pc which i am building for my bed room


any advise ???

If it was me I'd be thinking of trying a different router. All your machines should be up to the task no problem.

Media Streaming works perfectly with Windows 7 and I do a lot of streaming.

Even wirelessly out to me garage I can stream movies perfectly with no skipping at 20mbps wireless.

I don't believe you should need to mess with the routers firewalls either.

Hello,

I got a really good router after testing 5 routors on media streaming i found asus as very powerful router
i am able to transfer files between computer at 120 MB/s to 85 MB/s

any other recommantionds

You might be experiencing a encoding problem. If you can stream ok from online services and not from local lan it is not the network imo. Therefor you should look at the computer doing the encoding and see if the hickups are orginating there. you can also do a continuous ping from a client to the server at the same time to verifi that your connection is not the problem.
ping x.x.x.x -t

btw it might also be a gig interface problem. I have sometimes seen gig intefaces connected to 100 mb links fail. Try setting it to 100 full duplex or 100 auto if the network card has that option. If that is the problem you should see a continous ping fail every now and then.

jacklynee said:

Hello,

I got a really good router after testing 5 routors on media streaming i found asus as very powerful router
i am able to transfer files between computer at 120 MB/s to 85 MB/s

any other recommantionds

You tested five routers but ended up with the one that doesn't stream well? Talk about bad luck.

Have you tried resetting the router or working with it's settings?