[mythtv-users] Wifi

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 26 13:09:00 UTC 2018


Tell her to stay in the Kitchen where she belongs then she doesn't
have to see them?




I'll get my coat..........




Have a good weekend everyone.

On 26 January 2018 at 12:59, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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