Here is the error message from my imac frontend - I have same problem on linux frontends - it works great sometimes for hours- sometimes for minutes then hangs. Sometimes it exits back to frontend, sometimes frontend has to be killed, sometimes it screws up my router and that needs to be restarted (mac only) here is the error gfrom the console:

Im wondering if this is a wifi problem (wrt54g) or my celeron 600 backend with 256 ram is hanging? Thanks everyone.

2005-12-15 14:53:21.383 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2005-12-15 14:53:21.424 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-12-15 14:54:03.109 prebuffering pause
2005-12-15 14:54:06.144 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-12-15 14:54:10.145 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-12-15 14:54:14.147 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Dec 15 14:54:17 wilberwokies-imac-g5 configd[33]: SecKeychainFindGenericPassword err= -25308 ( =0xffff9d24, secErrStr=User interaction is not allowed. ) (current= 80211)
2005-12-15 14:54:18.148 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-12-15 14:54:22.149 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-12-15 14:54:26.150 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-12-15 14:54:28.764 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
2005-12-15 14:54:28.765 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control socket.
2005-12-15 14:54:28.766 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-12-15 14:54:29.199 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-12-15 14:54:29.199 ReadStringList: Bad socket
2005-12-15 14:54:29.199 Remote file timeout.
2005-12-15 14:54:29.200 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2005-12-15 14:54:29.279 Changing from None to None

If could be any number of things.... But since you didn't give enough hardware details, who knows?

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cesman

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My backend is a celeron 600 mhz with 256mb RAM and a pvr-350 connected with cat5e to a wrt54g.

I dont know what chipset it uses, it is a free pc I got, it was an HP I think.

I guess the only thing to do is try a faster backend and then if it continued to do the same thing it would be the wireless network.

Can you watch TV on the backend w/o issue?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Yes I can watch video fine on the backend.

I have read prebuffering pause is from not having data available on time, probably from latency of wifi network.

I dont mind the occasional dropped connection, I just wish it would drop it fast so I can start it again. Right now sometimes it drops it fast and ather times takes a while, sometimes it hangs or freezes.

Anyway to change time out in case of prebuffering pause so the video is dropped quickly?