Hi Guys,
I’m new to RouterOS and the RB951G-2HnD is my very first Mikrotik device.
The issue I am having is XBMC Media Center will buffer video all the time when I have nodes connected in all ports at the back of the device.
There is WAN on POE port, and the rest are LAN.
However, connect cable to LAN, then connect to 8 port Linksys Switch, no problem with buffering of video on XBMC Media Center.
So…
Network Devices ----> RB951G [[eth1, eth2, eth3 eth4, eth5] Bridged] —> XBMC video buffering. constant and incessant start, stop…
However…
Network Devices —> Linksys 8 Port Switch —> RB951G [eth1, eth2…] —> XBMC video works!! No buffering at all.
Does anyone know why would this be, or what setting I could try to fix?
Thanks…
I have having exactly the same problem. It drives me mad and I tried replacing all components.
Everything works fine, when I connect my XBMC device to the Mikrotik. But when I start to stream a MKV video file over
the network (from my Synology NAS) all data throughput is suddenly gone after +/- 10 minutes.
The network connection is still active, since the SSH session from my laptop to the XBMC device remained working.
Creating new connections (i.e. pinging) from the XBMC device was not working. The video stream obviously remained frozen.
The throughput remained frozen for like 1-2 minute or so. After that, everything was working again for yet another +/- 10 minutes.
No errors are shown on the NIC and on the Mikrotik port. I am using 2 mikrotik devices in my LAN, using the spanning tree protocol.
I tried multiple Mikrotik devices and restored them to defaults factory settings / upgraded them with the latest software version.
When I try to connect the XBMC device through a cheap NetGear Gbit switch (splitting the uplink cable, before the Mikrotik - bypassing it), everything
works like a charm.
When I try to split the network cable after the Mikrotik and connect my cheap NetGear GBit switch, it still keeps halting throughput.
So, it must be that the Mikrotik is doing something. Does anyone have an idea on what is going on?
Don’t bridge the ports. Make them slave ports so you can use the switch chip.
I cannot do that, since the spanning tree protocol won’t work properly.
Since I use 2 mikrotiks in my LAN, without proper R/STP it would create multicast storms / network loops between the 2 mikrotiks.
I checked CPU / Mem levels on the Mikrotik and it wasn’t anywhere near its maximum…
Is there any other reason (besides the cpu load) that would make the port bridge cause problems during MKV streaming?