[mythtv-users] Does your wireless work better than mine?

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 02:10:12 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:03 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>   I'm playing around with my new HDHR. It seems to work pretty nicely
>> IF I'm attached to it through a wired network. However across my
>> wireless it's not so good. Does your wireless work better than mine?
>>
>>   Here's my setup for testing:
>>
>> HDHR -> LinkSys Switch -> WAP54G Access Point ->
>>
>> 40 ft.
>>
>>  -> WRT54G Wireless router ->
>>
>> 60 ft.
>>
>> ->WAP54G Access Point -> LinkSys Switch -> Vista PC
>>
>>   While I'd like to have the HDHR in the middle for now I don't have
>> cable there so I stuck it at one end and I'm trying to stream live
>> 1080i to the far end where I'm using a Vista laptop and VLC with the
>> SiliconDust tools.
>>
>> 1) If I take the laptop over to the HDHR and hook up to that switch
>> then 1080i is perfect. Doesn't ever drop a packet as far as I can see
>> watching the screen. Watched for about 20 minutes and everything
>> worked great.
>>
>> 2) If I take the laptop to the router in the middle then it works very
>> well although I do see a few artifacts when pictures are changing
>> quickly. I would likely be a bit disappointed over time if this were
>> the performance
>>
>> 3) When I take the laptop to the far end, as shown above, the picture
>> is a complete mess. You cannot even tell what's on TV. No audio.
>> Useless.
>>
>>   The two wireless hops are almost line of sight. There is one small
>> corner from the HDHR to the router. The router is about 6" back from
>> direct line of sight. The longer hop to my office is a straight line
>> but there are a couple of kitchen cabinets that block the signal from
>> being completely unobstructed.
>>
>>   My assumption here was that the router will act as a relay between
>> the two ends. If that's not the case then I'm trying to go about 100
>> feet which sounds tough. I'm going to get some longer cables and move
>> the Access Points around a bit to experiment.
>>
>>   Does your wireless network work better than mine?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>
> You have very little chance of getting HD streaming over wireless.
> Most people on the list won't even help you with problems you might be
> having once they hear about the wireless.
>
> If I couldn't get it to work one floor up and about 20 feet over, you
> probably never will. I would suggest reading up on fish lines and
> cable crimping and start looking into running cat5.
>
> Sorry.

I do HD over wireless all the time. I have an N router, but my clients
are all non-N, but it still works well. When I had a WRT54G, I could
not stream HD over wireless, but with the N router to a G client, no
problems.

Tom


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