Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth Setup. Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends. Works a treat :) [Did take an age to setup initially, especially with encryption!] Cheers - Ciaran
On 05/10/05, Paul V. Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:42 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >2) Don't mess with wireless! I know this will probably start some > > >flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under > > >Linux. I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would > > >stop working randomly. Save yourself a headache and go with > > >tried-and-true 10/100. Believe me, it's much easier than reading serial > > >numbers off of boxes at Best Buy trying to find the one magic revision > > >of some wireless card that is rumored to work 85% of the time. > > > > FYI. Using a wireless bridge to a PCs built in 10/100 port is a very > > workable solution for Wireless in Linux as it takes Linux out of the > > equation. > > IMHO even 802.11g is not really good and consistent enough for mythtv. > Ultimately you want your TV to work like an appliance, ie it should always > work and not need constant tinkering. I've fought with using wireless for my > mythtv setup as well but I could not get a 100% consistent signal that had > enough BW to not have hickups in the playback. I live in a moderately high > density area where several neighbors in my building also have wireless, > perhaps it would be different in the 'burbs but thats my experience. > Paul > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > -- - Ciaran (I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants one, gets one) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users