For the record, I have an encrypted 802.11g network consisting of a
Linksys game adaptor on my MythTV box, a D-Link one on a Mac mini,
and 802.11g on my laptop. I can watch streams from both remote front
ends as well as on my MythTV box without much problem. Kick down my
bitrate a bit and it's no issue at all. I had lots of speed issues
before I turned off 802.11b on my wireless router, though.
Also, the Linksys sucked to configure. After support was of no help
("What version of Windows are you running? You don't have a Windows
PC? Sorry, you can't configure it any other way."), I had to borrow a
Windows laptop to configure it. Worked on the PC laptop, would not
work on the Mac mini. Stuck it on the Linux box and it was fine. D-
Link worked right off the bat on any machine.
On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Mark deJong wrote:
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:26:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hello,
Hello Audience. Meet troll. Obviously a unwarranted plug.
just wanted to tell everybody that now I have a working
network at home so I can start experimenting with
multiple frontend/backend configuration.
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI.
Even though I had read a message of another user who was warning
about
terrible and useless struggling with it - I had to try it the same
as I couldn't lay additional cables in my home.
I just have to confirm that I have uselessly spent lot of
time, money and blood and sleepless nights for more than one year
without getting an usable network.
At the end a friend suggested me the "devolo" adapter
http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsethernet.html
and it magically gave me a working WIRED network based on the
existing
electricity cables.
Even though the claimed 85 Mbps are not met, I now have an honest
WIRED network with a reliable, constant, robust actual 10+ Mbps
throughput
allowing me to to all I need.
The 811.g wi-fi claimed 54 Mbps but actually resulted
in less than 1 Mbps (in the best case) and was not reliable
at all... the link was up for 5 seconds and then down for 30 seconds,
when I was lucky!
Hope this will save some people from the terrible pain that me,
and others, have experimented.
Franco
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