[mythtv-users] Wireless Frontend

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Harald Kubota wrote:

>
>> 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.
>>
>
> My experience: it works (for SD, no HD here), but it's significantly
> slower when jumping around in the stream, browsing media, getting
> streams started etc. Bandwidth is enough once it was started to  
> display
> something.
>
> That is, unless someone in the near neighbourhood turns on their
> microwave, in which case the bandwidth drops to somewhat below
> 200KByte/s, which is not enough anymore and the picture stops (sound
> generally is ok).
> VERY annoying since we cannot tell neighbours to stop using their
> microwave and I will thus not go for wireless in the long run.
>

If you must use wireless for some reason you could look into 802.11a,  
which does not operate in the 2.4Ghz. "free-for-all" band.

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org