> 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 The router at home is a Linksys WRT54G and I'm using a Media MVP for my front end, coupled with a Linksys Wireless Game adapter. The wireless link -was- somewhat flaky at first (often crashing the ethernet driver in the MVP with overruns and remote PHY faults). But using ethereal I noticed that the maximum bit rate I needed for watching live TV or recorded programs was about 10-11 Mb/s. I found that limiting the wireless speed to something less than the absolute maximum 54 MB/s for 802.11g (like 36 or 48 MB/s) improved the reliability 100% -- I haven't had one single packet overrun or remote PHY fault in the MVP since making that change and the picture is rock solid. Chuck
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