* Owen Berry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061006 10:50]: > I need to setup a wireless bridge in my home so that my myth box (still > to be built) can connect to my wireless network. I was thinking that I'd > get one of those WRT54GL's and put OpenWrt on it, and turn it into a > bridge. Does that sound feasible? Any cheaper (and reliable) > suggestions? It needs to be able to handle WPA. > > Before anyone starts pushing for a wired connection, this is going to be > located in my living room, which is nowhere near anything that could be > used to wire it up. Also, it'll be running front and back myth on the > same machine, so there's no need for a super fast connection.
Owen, I've been running a very similar setup for a couple years. The mythtv box in my living room connects to one of the wired ports on a WRT54G (running openwrt), and the WRT54G is bridged wirelessly to another WRT54G (running openwrt) upstairs in the "server room". I'm not using WPA yet, but I know others have it working. The mythtv box is both a frontend and a backend, but I also have frontends on other machines around the house, including my wireless laptop. All the frontends obviously have to talk wirelessly to the backend in the living room, which usually works very well, except for HD programs. HD content is just too much bandwidth over 802.11g, so I can't use the normal mythtv frontend. Instead, I downgrade and stream any HD stuff with vlc on the mythtv backend, and play it on a client machine with any normal video player (mplayer, vlc, xine, etc). It's somewhat kludgy to setup the stream, but I don't do it very often, and there is a mythtv streaming plugin, which might make this easier, but I haven't tried it yet. Overall, it's a great setup, with a high Wife Approval Factor. ;-) (Just get a nice universal remote (radio shack) and a cheap lirc serial/usb device (ebay)). Hope that helps, Jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
