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paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 14:17

ok, so I finally got my WHS2011 system setup but am having a few problems.
Media/File Server :
Celeron E3400
Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT
4GB RAM
1x 500GB Samsung F3
2x 1TB Western Digital Black
WHS2011

music via the webstreaming thing is excellent, but video, although the buffering is very quick (pretty much instant) the quality is poor. I have set it to best in dashboard, so is it down to the net speed (either server or client side) or the spec of the server (read in one of the help files that the cpu on server does a lot of the work for media sharing).
CPU seems to fluctuate from 68-100% when streaming video content. so really, is my system good enough for the job, or should I look at a better system to do this?
I suppose if I test it when I get home on the network (which wont be limited by internet speeds) I will be able to confirm/eliminate the internet side of it.

thanks in advance.

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 14:51

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paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:17

jamesfreddie said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £97.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £33.59
Total : £190.97 (includes shipping : £9.50).

so are you agreeing that its probably a hardware issue?

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:25

paradisiac said:
so are you agreeing that its probably a hardware issue?

Yes.

I think if its using 70% upwards CPU wise then its most likley going to be a CPU issue.

Do you just have a stock cooler on the CPU?
Is the RAM DDR2 or 3?

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:29

jamesfreddie said:
Yes.

I think if its using 70% upwards CPU wise then its most likley going to be a CPU issue.

Do you just have a stock cooler on the CPU?
Is the RAM DDR2 or 3?

DDR3, Arctic Freezer 7 cooler installed.

droyden · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:33

No need to swap out the whole system just grab a cheap c2d from members market for <30quid or a c2q for <60

edit: to give you an idea: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+E3400+@+2.60GHz

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:34

paradisiac said:
DDR3, Arctic Freezer 7 cooler installed.

You could try overclocking the CPU.

You should be able to get 3.6GHz out of that celeron.

Also you could try upgrading the RAM to 8GB as its quite cheap.

sidethink · 30 Mar 2012 at 15:49

droyden said:
No need to swap out the whole system just grab a cheap c2d from members market for <30quid or a c2q for <60

This tbh.

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:14

ok some bad news

the quality is good over the home network, so not a cpu problem

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:22

paradisiac said:
ok some bad news the quality is good over the home network, so not a cpu problem

Whats your internet speed?

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:25

upload is 0.74Mbps according to speedtest.net.

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:49

paradisiac said:
upload is 0.74Mbps according to speedtest.net.

Who is your ISP?

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:50

jamesfreddie said:
Who is your ISP?

BT

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:54

paradisiac said:
BT

Is it just ADSL?

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 18:56

yeh, our exchange has been upgraded to infinity, but not my cabinet yet, so hopefully in the next 6months I should be upgraded.
im not over fussed about the download speed being as high as it is (15Mbps) so would they do a trade off and lower my DL and increase my UL speed?

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 19:09

paradisiac said:
yeh, our exchange has been upgraded to infinity, but not my cabinet yet, so hopefully in the next 6months I should be upgraded.
im not over fussed about the download speed being as high as it is (15Mbps) so would they do a trade off and lower my DL and increase my UL speed?

You could go virgin media.

I get 30mbs down and 3mbs up.

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 19:11

jamesfreddie said:
You could go virgin media.

I get 30mbs down and 3mbs up.

im not in a cable area

jamesfreddie · 30 Mar 2012 at 20:12

paradisiac said:
im not in a cable area

That sucks.

paradisiac · 30 Mar 2012 at 21:43

tell me about it. do you think its worth ringing bt or do they normally give you the max upload?
what sort of speed would I need to get good quality video?

jamesfreddie · 31 Mar 2012 at 17:16

paradisiac said:
tell me about it. do you think its worth ringing bt or do they normally give you the max upload?
what sort of speed would I need to get good quality video?

You might as well call BT you have nothing to loose.

I'm not sure what speed you would need.