Winterlight is making a good point... A wired connection is almost always best. I actually ran cat 5E all over my house because of that. Only our laptops/phones/etc. are on wireless.. and our guests of course, haha. ---- Julian
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? >> >> >> --- >> Brian >> > >
