To bond or not to Bond

1. offizieller Beitrag

    When using plex I have been getting longer buffer times with my new system which is using a USB gige connection. I have bonded my NIC's but i'm wondering if it's over kill or if i need to just stop using the USB nic since the on board one is working fine.

    Buffer times could mean your CPU doesn't have enough power to transcoding.
    If that the case, try transcode before hand with Handbrake.


    Bonding is better; it's provide fault tolerance and redundancy.
    You can try bonding with balance-rr or balance-tlb.
    USB Ethernet may not last long in the long run.
    Install an extra NIC.

    OMV v5.0
    Asus Z97-A/3.1; i3-4370
    32GB RAM Corsair Vengeance Pro

    • Offizieller Beitrag

    What are you streaming that you're saturating 100MB/s?


    A 1080p rip bluray is 10-15Mbit/s, a 4k must be 50Mbit or so?


    Unless you're watching 60 movies at the same time.....find it hard to believe you need bonding (link aggregation)

    Currently i'm only streaming Movies from my OMV to my Amazon Fire TV using Plex. I plan on allowing my mother in law access to my list of Movies and TV shows once i get my FTTH 1 Gbps speeds installed. Since her network is only 7 Mbps i doubt i'll be using much of the 100mbps. It's not buffering while we are watching the show just the initial loading which use to take 10-15 secs has just to 30+ sec. When I bonded it allowed me to load in 10 sec again. I'm currently running a i7-6700t processor clocked at 2.8 ghz with 8 GB Ram at 1600.

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