You have the right approach, but success will all depend on the bit
rate of the file as well as interference, and reception at your
location. Everything I have read says that running HD over wireless
is a problematic setup and nobody is really happy with it.
I have a WD Live Media player that works really well, but even into
it's 10/100 NIC I can't stream high bit rate HD, like a BD ISO file,
or a TS file recorded with my Hauppauge HD DVR without a lot of
stutters, and artifacts. WD warns against this and suggests using a
a local USB drive for such files.
Personally, I would probably just run the CAT6 across the floor
:) Good luck!
At 03:45 PM 6/12/2011, you wrote:
Next month we're moving to a new house, one that we will be renting for a
few years. I'm looking at how to stream content from our home media server
around the house. It looks like running LAN cables will not be an option so
we will have to do it wirelessly
We will be streaming everything from 480p xvid to 1080p Blu Ray rips, but
generally to no more than one device at a time (perhaps worst case two,
although not likely both 1080p). My initial thought is to setup two
separate Wifi networks - one on 5 Ghz dedicated to the HTPCs and media
server, and a separate 2.4 Ghz network for everything else.
Has anyone tried that before and run into problems? I think I can still
have all the devices on both networks on the same LAN as long as they are
all on the same subnet, right?
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Brian
