[mythtv-users] Wireless Frontend
Raphael
rpooser at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 05:01:39 UTC 2007
Franchini Roberto wrote:
>
> Is there anybody using MythTV Frontend 0.20 over a wireless connection
> 802.11B/G (at nominal 54MB/s)?
>
> I’m trying since significant time with Fedora Core 6 and an USB dongle
> “Wave 54” from Digicom, but it is not working smoothly (difficult boot
> – I have to insert the dongle after booting - not fluent playing)
>
> I’m giving up with the usb dongle and I’m wandering whether it is
> better to buy a new wireless access point or to spend ours and ours to
> place the cable.
>
> Thanks for assistance.
>
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I'm using wireless 54g just fine... for SD. I doubt 54g would do HD for
you but that's just a hunch. Anyway everything works great over wireless
for me, never so much as a hiccup. Live TV and watching recordings works
just as well as the backend/frontend machine. The only thing that's
slower is when skipping ahead 30 seconds, downstairs I can skip at a
rate of 1.5 min per second. Upstairs it probably takes around 1 second
to skip ahead 45 seconds or so.
The wireless AP is a Linksys WRT54g. The wireless card in linux is a
zonet ZE1601. Based on a Ralink chip; works excellently. The zonet
costed me $15 from Newegg. $5 after rebate. I don't think anything can
beat that, except free really.
Raphael
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