Some sort of lag on server

Hi, Ive had the server up and running for over 2 months now and started off with 2 users connected to it and then 3 and i added the 4th box 2 weeks ago, I reboot the whole server daily, its on Debian through the auto setup on this forum with OSCAM 1.20 build 7029 unstable.

My problem is all the boxes are getting a momentary split second freeze thats only been noticed today, and im notr sure what it can be, however when i look at the log flowing through oscam each address says what its looking for and in the found it says anything between 80ms and 120ms but i believe this is consistent from what it started out with.

I have it in 3 different houses all family and local all hooked up on a local fibre network with realy low latency of about 3ms and with capacity of around 110mb download and 40mb upload and theres no restrictions or chokes on ports or nothing.

Any suggestions on what i could try my oscam.server settings are ..

#[reader]
#label = SlYUK
#protocol = pcsc
#device = 0
#blockemm-u = 0
#blockemm-s = 0
#blockemm-g = 1
#blockemm-unknown = 1
#emmcache = 1,3,2
#group = 1
#caid = 0963

[reader]
label = SlYUK
protocol = pcsc
device = 0
enable = 1
detect = cd
mhz = 365
cardmhz = 365
blockemm-u = 0
blockemm-s = 0
blockemm-g = 1
blockemm-unknown = 1
boxkey = 0********
emmcache = 1,3,2

ecmcache = 1

group = 1
caid = 0963
ident = 0963:000000
lb_weight = 101
#ecmwhitelist = 0963@000000:3E,42,44,45,47,4E,F4,53,54,61,62,68,69 ,6A,6B,B6,6D,6F,71,72,73,77,78,79,7A,7C,7D,7E,80,8 B

Any hints or suggestions i welcome :)

I was planning to connect a few more boxes up over the next couple of weeks but im a little uncertain at the moment.

Oh i forgot the server is running on a old dell pc, its a P4HT at 2.8Ghz i believe with 512mb ram (I intend to upgrade it to 1GB tonight if i can fix this) and has 80gb hard drive

Thanks Again :)

You read my mind as i was coming back to the computer, its wierd, i reboot the server daily and i never ever reboot the bridge or router! Thanks, i'll give that a go and see if my sister moans at me for the 10 second gap in tv lol.

Just out of curiosity, with 1 viewing card, how many boxes could i possibly run off the server before lag realy kicks in, im thinking about having a box in every bedroom for each of the kids aswell in family so potentially around 20 boxes, or would i need to put a second viewing card in?

Thanks again!

Quote from Banny

There are too many variables to give a reliable answer, net, machine spec, reader used, which cam and the list goes on.

It is unusual that you would only want to share, most people I know that participate in such activities, trade off details, doesn't have to be on other sats either, you and your peers could get different packages this would also distribute the the requests more evenly between you and avoid having to consider, how many before I get problems.

The way i saw its use was instead of each of us paying the £70 ish a month for all channels in each house + an extra £10.50 for an additional box in another room, i thought if i setup 1 server with 1 card with the full package with all channels on, i could have a box in the room and 1 in the bedroom, one of my sisters could have a box in the bedroom and 3 more for the bedrooms, another sister could have 1 +1 in bedroom and my parents have 1 + 3 for the bedrooms then later on maybe id let my cousin and uncle on the server too so we could save ourselfs a fortune,

I had never really thought of trading details as we only use this one network for the tv channels and having all the channels already doesn't make sense to me. The other thing was im new to this over the last year and to start with i was using some dodgy pay server to get cheap tv for myself, i thought it would be a good way to go for the rest of the family to use a pay server but i never recommended it because of it being poor reliability so i looked into providing my own server for the family, if that makes sense