Wow! Thanks all for the great responses!<br>
<br>
I think I will bite the bullet and run CAT 5e/6. It will be more
construction, but in then end, I will either have a reliable video
stream or else I'll at least be able to rule out networking as a
probable cause. Thanks for the tips!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Whyte</b> <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I bought some (fairly expensive) hardware for a wireless frontend and<br>found it useless. Then, I have 11b nodes, which when turned on, would<br>make the video way to slow, plus I was using D-Link, which I have<br>found to be most unreliable.
<br><br>Even when the network speed was good, jumping around in video proved<br>slow and someone else mentioned. In the end I bought a 25m cable and<br>will run that until I hardwire the ethernet in.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Whytey
<br><br>On 9/6/05, Robert Denier <<a href="mailto:denier@umr.edu">denier@umr.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> I suspect that if it isn't too hard to do a gigabit switch and adapters<br>> combined with cat 5e/6 will give you a more responsive system,
<br>> especially when you jump around in the video, but the numbers below make<br>> it look like the wireless would work...<br>><br>> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 22:32 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:<br>> > On 9/5/05, Brian McEntire <
<a href="mailto:brian.mcentire@gmail.com">brian.mcentire@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi -<br>> > A question about network capacity:<br>> ><br>> > I'm planning to put a front end by the TV, and a back end in a
<br>> > different part of the house. The primary purpose for this<br>> > MythTV setup is HDTV viewing.<br>> ><br>> > Some early HDTV recordings are about 2.4 GB for 30 minutes.
<br>> ><br>> > This works out to 2.4 * 10^9 * 8 bits/B / 30 min / 60 sec/min=<br>> > 10.7 Mbps<br>> ><br>> > About 1.37 MB/sec. You can get this from 802.11g, but it's right at
<br>> > the limit of the standard 54 MBps (and only if you don't use the<br>> > network in mixed mode, if you add 802.11b clients the throughput will<br>> > drop). However, this is well within the limits for the "fast" 11g,
<br>> > i.e. proprietary extensions which typically double the speed of the<br>> > network (you've probably seen 108 Mbps devices advertised, that's<br>> > them). The catch is, they are usually 108 Mbps to each other, and 54
<br>> > Mbps to another brand, if you're lucky.<br>> ><br>> > I have a network of several Viewsonic WAP/Bridge devices (WAPBR-100,<br>> > CompUsa sells them on-line if you can't find them) and I get
2.4<br>> > MB/sec transfer rate to and from my Myth box. These are ethernet to<br>> > wireless bridges, not wireless adapters, which is the best since you<br>> > don't have to mess with wireless drivers - you just take all your
<br>> > bridges to one place, connect them to a PC one by one, configure them<br>> > all, one as a WAP and the rest as bridges, and then connect them to<br>> > any ethernet-enabled device, and with no changes to the device you're
<br>> > now connected to wireless.<br>> ><br>> > Fedor<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > For streaming from the backend to the frontend (aka accessing<br>> > via NFS?) it appears it will exceed Ethernet speed and require
<br>> > fast ethernet. I don't have cable run, so my question is, for<br>> > a strong signal, is it reasonable to expect a quality stream<br>> > over 54 Mbps wireless-g or is running CAT5/6 a better bet?
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