- Jul 16, 2008
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Background:
I have a TViX box which allows me to play ISO files of DVD's on my TV. This device has a 1tb drive in and quickly became full so I built myself a NAS. The TViX has 10/100 ethernet. The TViX also allows me to define network drives which can be used to stream ISOs to the TV via the TViX.
My NAS has 4 internal 1TB Drives as well as a seperate boot drive. The NAS acts as a stoarage device for ISOs to play through my TViX and also as a general fileserver and an 'always on' downloader. It is running XP pro SP3 and I use RDC to administer it.
The NAS is built on ITX tech with a VIA EPIA SN1800 motherboard and features 2 onboard NICs. NIC A is gigabit and NIC B is 10/100.
The problem:
I have currently only used the gigabit NIC on the NAS to stream movies and do all my downloading with. But I find my download speeds are pretty crappy averaging around 5k/sec to 30k/sec when downloading while I'm watching movies.
I had therefore thought of incorporating the NAS's second NIC as a dedicated web connection. So the gigabit is totally freed up for streaming and file transfers etc.
This is a diagram of my current set up (with the dashed line between NAS and Router as the intended set up).
I am quite a noob with networking so I'm having problems getting my head around all this;
Would my proposed set up actually work?
Would it aliviate stress on the gigabit NIC for movie streaming?
Is it even possible to tell a program to only use NIC B to download with and how would I do that?
Any help info or advice would be appriciated
I have a TViX box which allows me to play ISO files of DVD's on my TV. This device has a 1tb drive in and quickly became full so I built myself a NAS. The TViX has 10/100 ethernet. The TViX also allows me to define network drives which can be used to stream ISOs to the TV via the TViX.
My NAS has 4 internal 1TB Drives as well as a seperate boot drive. The NAS acts as a stoarage device for ISOs to play through my TViX and also as a general fileserver and an 'always on' downloader. It is running XP pro SP3 and I use RDC to administer it.
The NAS is built on ITX tech with a VIA EPIA SN1800 motherboard and features 2 onboard NICs. NIC A is gigabit and NIC B is 10/100.
The problem:
I have currently only used the gigabit NIC on the NAS to stream movies and do all my downloading with. But I find my download speeds are pretty crappy averaging around 5k/sec to 30k/sec when downloading while I'm watching movies.
I had therefore thought of incorporating the NAS's second NIC as a dedicated web connection. So the gigabit is totally freed up for streaming and file transfers etc.
This is a diagram of my current set up (with the dashed line between NAS and Router as the intended set up).
I am quite a noob with networking so I'm having problems getting my head around all this;
Would my proposed set up actually work?
Would it aliviate stress on the gigabit NIC for movie streaming?
Is it even possible to tell a program to only use NIC B to download with and how would I do that?
Any help info or advice would be appriciated
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