[mythtv-users] Wireless

[William Preston]

Yeah, FWIW I got a 54G wireless card and a base station (Broadcom chipset
in the client, dunno about the base station (Belkin)), and get anywhere
from 2MB->3MB/s transfer rates on average.  In my experience that's about
five or six times what a 802.11b setup will get you.

I'm not sure how myth streams its packets, but latency may be the thing
that kills you.  Wireless networks tend to have semi-random latency
problems (in my experience), so even if the bandwidth is there it might
not be enough.

The wife is just going to have to compromise--if she can take a PC sitting
in the living room, she can tolerate a tiny little cat5 cable :)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Matter" <mythtv at matter.net>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless


> > 1)  if I wanted to run a separate front-end from the backend, could I
do
> > it using a wireless (802.11b) card?  Would that give enough bandwidth
to
> > play the movies and watch live TV?
>
> Nope.
>
> I tried it, as running cables under the house is one of my least
favorite
> things to do.  It really wasn't up to it, unless you use a really low
> resolution capture.  So I bit the bullet and ran a cat 5 cable.
>
> 802.11g or 802.11a may work better.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
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