[mythtv-users] Wireless on Linux

Eric Joe sysop at tje1.com
Wed Sep 15 09:49:15 EDT 2004


> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 00:04 -0700, John Smith wrote:
>> Does anybody have a wireless MythTV box? I'm just
>> trying to determine which (if any) PCI wireless cards
>> work under Linux.
>
> I don't run Myth on my laptop, but I use a prism based PCMCIA card on
> the laptop that works fine, and is easily fast enough to stream video
> (I've watched enough mpeg2 and divx movies from an nfs mounted drive to
> be able to say that).

802.11b is *NOT* fast enough to watch Live TV from a MythBox backend to a
wireless frontend. I havent tried 802.11g.

-- 
Eric Joe
Network Operations
Journey's End Internet



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