[mythtv-users] wireless frontend?

Peter Watkins peterw at tux.org
Tue Jul 18 02:54:24 UTC 2006


Monkey Pet wrote:
> I played with 802.11g usb adapters with the xbox frontend and never got
> it working properly.  Most of the time the driver would crash after a
> period of time.  The driver I used were windows drivers wrapped up in
> ndiswrapper or driverloader.  I decided to go with the wired approach
> and have been happy ever since.

For standard def recordings, I've had good luck using a Linksys AP
running DD-WRT as a wireless bridge. It's best if either the FE or the
BE is connected via ethernet to the AP so that only one device is using
802.11g

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Network

-Peter

> On 7/12/06, *Stephen Sassman* <sassman1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:sassman1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am thinking of building a frontend for my living room, but the
>     backend is upstairs. Is it possible to use a wireless card to
>     connect to the backend. My backend is connected to a wireless
>     router. I would like to do this, but I have heard that it could be a
>     problem.
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