How fast is your turbonet or cachecard nic?

[ciper]

Im trying to find any tricks to increase the speed of transfering data from my tivo. So far I have maxed out on mfs_ftp at 500k per second :(

Ive done all the common hacks to improve the tivos speed with little/no difference in network speed. This leads me to believe its a problem with the nic hardware or my network configuration.

[boboli]

I have a CacheCard and I get around 1500 - 1700 KBps... I haven't done any tweaking of the CacheCard or it's settings...



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[ciper]

1500 in which direction and with what application on the tivo and pc side?

[boboli]

1500 download speed, using mfs_ftp.tcl on the TIVO side and FLASH FXP on the PC side.

I don't use MFS much, but I fired it up to do that test download.


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[ciper]

Shoot. Even with fxp I only get 500k per second. I wonder where the problem is?

[boboli]

Shoot. Even with fxp I only get 500k per second. I wonder where the problem is?


Is your HUB/NIC limited to 10BaseT??

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[newbie]

Use hdparm,
Put a Dtivo in standby mode
Turn a SA unit to an unused channel
See if temporarily turning off programs (including AV) that are running on your PC helps.

[ciper]

boboli no its 10/100 auto.


Jul 24 05:57:51 (none) kernel: turbonet2: link = none
Jul 24 05:57:54 (none) kernel: turbonet2: link = 100Mbps full-duplex
Jul 24 06:03:58 (none) kernel: turbonet2: driver version 20050218
Jul 24 06:03:58 (none) kernel: turbonet2: using MAC address 00:0B:AD:69:C6:67
Jul 24 06:03:58 (none) kernel: turbonet2: driver successfully installed
Jul 24 06:03:58 (none) kernel: turbonet2: driver successfully installed
Jul 24 06:04:02 (none) kernel: turbonet2: link = 100Mbps full-duplex


newbie: Ive adjusted the hdparms, installed 512mb into the cachecard, killed the ideturbo module, tuned to a channel with no signal, installed 7200rpm drives with 8mb buffer, disabled the firewall on the pc, put the tivo in standby, used the latest version of mfs_ftp, adjusted the PC's mtu to 1270, changed the priority of the ftp application on the tivo, etc...

[danpritts]

there was a patch to mfs_ftp that vastly improved my speeds (from something like 200KB/sec to 2.5MB/sec).

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39487

if you haven't done that...do it.

[ciper]

I wanted to update everyone that I am now able to get almost exactly 1MB/s on my S1 Tivo while a MODE0 recording is in progress! I can't be sure which modification made the difference but the speed is quite noticeable. Screenshot from FlashFXP
http://i10.tinypic.com/4poco4l.jpg
Here is the thread where I covered the performance tweaks that led to this speed http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=360675