<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 9, 2007 10:17 AM, Ed Brandon <<a href="mailto:bigeb@ebnet.us">bigeb@ebnet.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I used a wireless bridge connected to my frontend rather than dealing<br>with the madwifi drivers for a internal wireless card. I had the same<br>issues with playing HD video until I hard coded the adapter to only<br>connect at 54mbs. Even though it had a 90% plus signal the speed would
<br>bump down to 48 or 36 and HD video would start pausing every couple of<br>seconds. I have 4 or 5 other wireless networks around me as well so be<br>sure to pick a clean channel if possible. I have also had much better
<br>luck with having my backend wired instead of wireless.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ed<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Ma Begaj wrote:<br>> 2007/12/9, William Munson <<a href="mailto:w.munson@comcast.net">
w.munson@comcast.net</a>>:<br>><br>>> Steve Vanspall wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Hi,<br>>>><br>>>> this has been asked a few times but without any real answer, so i<br>>>> thought i'd spell out my situation.
<br>>>><br>>>> I have my mythbackend (which also runs a front end) running in my living<br>>>> room using a g wireless network card to a router.<br>>>><br>>>> My laptop is also on a wireless network card to the same router.
<br>>>><br>>>> When i try to watch tv or play pre-recorded tv the playback pauses every<br>>>> 10 seconds or so, like the buffer runs out too early.<br>>>><br>>>> So question 1, is this the problem, how do i find out
<br>>>><br>>>> 2. is there any way to increase the buffer size. although thinking about<br>>>> it that may not work will just wait longer to pause<br>>>><br>>>> also i run windows on the same laptop. I use Mythtvplayer (a windows
<br>>>> program that connects to my frontend and lets me play pre-recorded tv<br>>>> shows). It streams without a problem. To my understanding it connects<br>>>> the same way but only allows me to play prerecorded tv.
<br>>>><br>>>> Any ideas?<br>>>><br>>>> thanks in advance<br>>>><br>>>> Steve<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>> Simple answer. Your wireless G card does not have the bandwidth or
<br>>> latency to stream tv signals. Even with the laptop setting right next<br>>> the router I cannot smoothly stream lo-def tv and cannot even come close<br>>> to playing HD material over wireless with a G card. I am not sure that
<br>>> one of the wireless N systems will help as its latency is just as bad,<br>>> only the bandwidth increases. You might be able to find one of the<br>>> optimized dual channel bonded models however you will need to dig deep
<br>>> into your wallet if you want one.<br>>><br>><br>> I cannot talk about HD, but SD is playing really fine over G card<br>> (ipw2200). I even run a few downloads at the same time, and I have no<br>
> problems at all.<br>><br>> M.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
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