[mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sun May 1 18:37:27 UTC 2005


So I guess that's the real question. If you make a wireless network
and let's assume that the only think on that network is MythTV - will
it be good enough to watch Myth at a location remote from the backend
machine? If not there's no purpose to spending this money.

It seems to me that the 2MB/S or 3MB/S should be enough. Is that much
agreed to or are there other problems?

For us wireless has been a big disappointment even for browsing the
web. Watching MythTV is way beyond what we've accomplished with
ndiswrapper solutions. I'd love to try one of these LinkSys Bridges,
but only if it really works for Myth.

Thanks,
Mark

On 5/1/05, Griffon -- <bushibot at gmail.com> wrote:
> I started out by building a mesh G network using linksys 54g's. This
> was good for the basics but when it came to streaming the vob's it
> often break down even, also interference was causing speed drop outs
> so it would renegotiate at 12 or so for a wile, this would make
> streams unusable even if a I set s huge cache on mp layer. So I sucked
> it up and spent a weekend and about a hundred bucks wiring the whole
> house with cat. It was a total pain in the ass but the end result has
> been very worth it. WAF has gone way up since I finished that.
> 
> -Griffon
> 
> On 5/1/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/30/05, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> > > > That's what I ended up doing as well.  I recommend the Linksys WRT54G router
> > > > which you can then turn into a wireless bridge through modified firmware,
> > > > the best of which, IMO, is available at http://www.sveasoft.com .  These
> > > > things can frequently be had for around $50 after rebate, which there is
> > > > usually one somewhere.
> > >
> > > I'm using my WRT54G as a bridge between my wired and wireless networks using
> > > stock firmware.  The frontend in my living room uses a Belkin PCI 54G card
> > > using ndiswrapper.  I'm able to transfer about 3Mbytes/sec over the
> > > network from one of my wired servers.  Seems to be working pretty well.
> > > My wifes computer (which is used a lot more heavily than the Myth frontend
> > > usually) is also connected at 54Mb/s via another Belkin PCI card using
> > > ndiswrapper.  I don't use the Linksys as my router to the internet, it
> > > is only used a a wireless bridge between my internal networks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris
> >
> > So 3MB/S == 27Mb/S or about half the advertized speed. I suspect that
> > this is pretty good with network overhead.
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> --
> -Griffon
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