A Little Advice Please..

[glenn71x]

Hey everyone
Been having a real annoying problem. I have been streaming all sorts of content over a wired network for some time now flawlessly. 720p 1080p mkv files all playing fine over my stand alone media players. The last few days I have been getting significant break ups and slow downs even streaming the most basic xvid and divx files. This has been happening on both my Patriot Box Office and even my Xbox Media Center so I know it is something in my network.

My setup is a Westell Router/Modem from verizon, a Patch panel connected to an 8 port switch with Cat 5 running to many rooms in the house, and then I have several switches in different rooms. Would 1 bad switch somewhere in the network have the ability to choke the whole network while streaming? If so is there a good way to isolate the piece of equipment causing the problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[jamesmcuk]

Have you tried turning off all but 1 PC at a time and trying to stream to see if problem persists this way you can isolate it to a PC or the Network Hardware / cabling. Also have any new high power cables / electrically noisy appliances been installed near any of the network equipment or cables

 

[Crusty]

You could have a loop in your physical layer. What kind of switches are you using?

 

[glenn71x]

What do you mean a loop? I have several types of switches in different rooms. The main one is a Hawking 8 port. That feeds the patch panel to the other rooms. Then there is 3 netgears and a linksys. They are all 5 port 10/100 switches.