<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 05:37:24 pm Brian Wood wrote:<br>
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>> My point was that using a Wireless bridge is *not * the same thing as using<br>
>> a wired connection. It might work in a similar manner in some cases, but<br>
>> wireless is a very different animal from WiFi.<br>
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> I meant "wired", of course.<br>
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</div>One advantage of a wireless bridge is the ability for the client to<br>
PXE boot from their wired card, a feat which is tricky from a wireless<br>
card.<br>
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The Squeezebox devices can act as a network bridge, and I have my<br>
bedroom frontend plugged into one and netbooting.<br>
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Sometimes the wireless doesn't provide enough bandwidth, sometimes it<br>
does. I suspect other traffic is the problem, when my son goes into<br>
his bedroom and starts browsing/downloading off his wireless laptop,<br>
the bedroom PC seems to stutter more.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's the worst part of wireless networking, IMO. Only one station can transmit at a time, so if you have another user (or even a neighbor on a close enough channel) using the network, your stream can't use it. Not really a problem for normal internet traffic, but a big deal for HD streaming. I found it worked OK if there was nothing else going on with the network, but as soon as another computer wanted to do anything more than ARP, the stream would stutter. This was a test before I built my house. Based on that, I wired every room with cat5e and rg6. WiFi is for my laptop and my smartphone to get to the internet. If I'm moving large amounts of data with my laptop, it gets a wired connection as well. It's just so much faster and more reliable. </div>
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