Darren Black wrote:
I just bought myself a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop (wasn't keen on
buying Dell, but the price was good and it's a surprisingly nice
machine). The machine contains an Intel 2200 wifi card as part of the
Centrino package. My attempts to get the card working well in FC4 have
been, well... ugly would probably be the best word. That's perhaps a
little beside the point of this post.
What I'm really wondering is if anybody here uses such a card under
linux to stream TV/recordings over. In the times I have actually had
the card functioning, the wireless connection was unable to sustain a
constant stream (without pausing and jitter). My streams are from a
PVR150 card and encoded at up to 8500kbit/sec. I have tried turning
the bitrate down to 6500 which helped, but not for very long. My
previous wireless gear was some DLink "b+" standard equipment. My
current router is a Linksys WRT54GS. I should be getting better
throughput with this setup, however this is not the case in Linux (to
this point at least). Performance in Windoze is alot better - the same
recordings play back problem free using dsmyth.
I suspect that my inability to configure the card correctly is the
cause of the poor performance, but I'd like some feedback to either
confirm or disprove this hypothesis. So do let me know :-)
While I can't answer your question here, Dell does make some Linux
resources available. Try here as your starting point for your
investigation:
http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml
Kevin
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