[bodogbodog]

I use my XBOX360 as a media extender off Vista Ultimate (wired connection) and it is freezing regularly

The situation is interesting though as it freezes after a varying period of time, often after a couple of minutes of starting to play a recording (although sometimes it will go for an hour before freezing) and after the freeze occurs about a minute later it reports that it's lost connection with VMC, when I get it to reconnect it reconnects to the VMC dashboard (once in a while it offers a resume option when I go to the recording I was watching (not always though) - then after reconnecting after the initial freeze it will run all night without a further freeze (I can't recall a situation where its frozen twice in one night after rebooting the XBOX 360

The XBOX 360 freeze does not impact the VMC which keeps on running

The wired ethernet network is on a 10/100 speed network - so I am thinking of upgrading it to go through a gigabit switch - that may help to keep feeding the file to the XBOX 360

Does anyone understand how the XBOX 360 extender works - does it buffer the data it's streaming - I'm thinking that it may be freezing after the buffer fills - or something is happening on the network that means the data isn't streaming fast enough to keep it full

Overall WAF is suffering - although she knows she couldn't exist with VMC so put's up with it

Any ideas / suggestions for troubleshooting this issue?