2009-12-31, 04:41
dan1son Wrote:This might be slightly unrelated, but I've noticed my ethernet speeds on the ATV plugged into the same exact bridge, even the same port, are hideously slow compared to the Aspire Revo it's currently sitting on. I'm talking in the 10x range.
Basically the network isn't fast enough for 1080p when using the ATV when it's plenty fast for the revo.
wget's from my server yield over 6M/s to the acer and around 500k/s to the ATV.
using 8139too/8139cp kernel driver it appears.
Not sure if this helps, but I spent a ton of time troubleshooting slow network performance similar to what you are describing a few weeks ago (ubuntu net install took forever).
For a unrelated reason I plugged the usb thumbdrive into a usb hub and then into the apple tv and the problem went away.
Reconnecting it directly killed network performance again so I gave up and left the hub connected.
USB drive I saw the problem with was a 8GB Patriot XT. Don't know if it is a software issue or a hardware issue relating to the close proximity of the USB port to the network port.