Recent content by Apx

Have CAT5 (big E) all over the house here with 100Mb Cisco switch 2940 and runs pretty smooth. I sometimes see a minor hiccup in the stream but it hardly uses any bandwidth so it's related to the crappy directv software. Most streams don't use more then 20% of the 100Mb. If you don't want it...

I think they support mdix auto so you can use a straight cable. At least on the boxes with 2 ethernet ports.

Thanks! I am new here but have been a network engineer for about 13 years ;-) Anyways, I have not setup MRV myself yet and jumped on here after I heard the CE software has it available and am waiting for the next available download. I am not sure if you can connect the DVR's back to back with...

Oops.. forgot the LLDP. Link layer discovery protocol. This is to pass vlan info, managment ip all that kind of info. It has nothing to do with better passing on packets. Just make sure the boxes are in the same subnet and all traffic will be switched. Routing would definitely slow you down...

Link aggregation is combining multiple ports together which I doubt the receivers are capable of doing. This is used by uplinks, servers and vmware for example. Trunks are definitely the wrong setup and you should just configure a switched port and make sure all ports are setup in the same...