You're right, a lot depends on the interference. But Wifi is a black art even for electrical engineers like me. At the moment, my desktop has a rock solid connection to my home router and I can stream BluRay to it no problem. But 10 feet away, my brand new Lenovo x220 laptop can barely load a webpage without multiple dropped connections. After spending a week troubleshooting (including 3 complete reinstalls), I went traveling for work and the laptop's wifi worked just fine in all the hotel and airport networks. Turns out the Centrino 6250 card in it just doesn't get along with my Airport Extreme router at home.
I can't pick up any Wifi networks from our neighbors in the new house, it's only two floors, and we don't have any cordless phones or baby monitors so it should be a pretty clean RF environment. We're also getting the Fios 50 Mb internet service, which I am REALLY looking forward to after dealing with 3 MB DSL for the last few years. My plan is to locate the router, Fios modem, and content server all in the same location so I can run gigabit ethernet between the router and the file server. And if it is in a convenient location for the downstairs media center, then I will run cable to that as well. But everything else in the house will be wireles. --- Brian 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 >> > >
