Also, I'd make sure to buy a wireless bridge on which you can replace the antenna if you need to. Getting a higher gain antanna is one of the best things you can do to improve your signal strength, should you need to.
-Nate On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:50:02 -0500, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:51:22 -0500, Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know wireless options for mythboxes have been discussed repeatedly > > on the list, but it seems that those are usually for frontend systems. > > I'm thinking > > that I'll be okay since g should give me 30 Mbits or so. Of course, > > the remote frontends will be mounting the video, movie and music > > directories via NFS over the same connection. > > You will never see a real 30Mbits through a g connection. So you can't > count on that. The absolute best you will sustain is just over > 20Mbits, and it will drop fast with walls in the way. Even athero's > "SuperG 104Mbits" barely gets up to the high 20's. Here is a nice > article. > http://www.techworld.com/mobility/features/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayfeatures&featureid=641&page=1&pagepos=8 > > Even so.. You will probably be fine with 802.11g and MythTV with that > setup. A full HDTV broadcast is only 20Mbits, so in ideal conditions > you "should" be able to watch a High Def stream over a wireless > network. Standard Def Mpeg2 is much smaller. I have in fact, been > successful in streaming HDTV over my 802.11a wireless network. > However, I have always found that 802.11a performs on average slightly > better for sustained bandwidth then 802.11g. Give it a go and share > your experiences. > > -- > Anthony Vito > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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