[mythtv-users] Wifi

[Daryl McDonald]

Thanks to all respondents, the wife hates wires everywhere, but further
contemplation has yielded an inconspicuous route for the cat5. One more
question, my former ISP used to supply cable and internet on the same coax,
before it was encrypted, why am I being told that they must be on separate
lines in the Condo? FTA antenna and internet, I mean.

On Jan 25, 2018 8:18 PM, "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:20:07 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Greetings Mtyhizens, my recent move is requiring using WiFi within a 12
> >foot proximity. I use two internal cards and one HDHR. Would a WiFi
> >extender kit (ac to cat5) be any better than a 300 mbps dual band USB
> >dongle? Hard wiring would create a trip hazard or require fishing thru
> >walls and ceiling. How much data is moving when the HDHR is recording two
> >HD episodes at the same time?
>
> A basic rule of thumb seems to be that 802.11n is insufficient for
> playback of HD recordings.  You want 802.11ac on 5 GHz for it to be
> reliable.  Using WiFi for recording from a tuner is not recommended.
> Tuners can work by selecting out the streams for a channel at the
> tuner and only sending the data for one channel.  I would expect that
> networked tuners would normally do that.  But when you are doing
> scanning for channels, if the tuner need to send the entire multiplex
> at once to the PC, then I would not expect that to work as the
> bandwidth on WiFi will be way too small.  Also, WiFi is not reliable -
> there are often small disruptions.  When playing back a recording or
> playing a video from the Internet, that will normally only cause a
> short pause and playback will recover.  But disruptions like that in
> the middle of a recording have the potential to completely stop the
> recording at that point, or make the rest of the recording into random
> data.
>
> Another option you should consider if you really are unable to get
> cable connections is using an Ethernet over powerline connection.
> Depending on your wiring, these normally (if they work) provide a
> rather higher throughput than WiFi and are normally reliable, unless
> someone plugs a new device into the wrong plug and causes
> interference.
>
> But I really would recommend using cable if at all possible.  See if
> you can find a professional to give you an assessment of how much it
> would cost - frequently they can see ways of doing things that you
> will not.
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