[mythtv-users] OT: wireless 802.11g pci suggestions

[Sager, Jim]

Travis,

Thanks for the response. I figured out what I was doing wrong - it's
actually pretty stupid on my part. When setting up the new frontend I
did some changes to the backend as well. I changed the hostname for
the backend which killed the backends ability to stream the video to
the frontend since all the recordings were done with a different
hostname. I had to go into mysql and change the hostname for each
recording to the new hostname. Once I did this streaming worked great
and ff/rw were very quick. Now I understand a little more how the
client/server operations work with MythTV.

The only reason I can figure to mount the server would be if I wanted
the recordings from my frontend/slave (which has a PVR-350 in it) to be
stored on the master backend. Otherwise all recordings on the slave
would be stored on the slave machine itself. I kind of like the idea of
a central repository for my recordings.

Thanks again for the reply.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Kelley [mailto:rhatguy at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:38 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] OT: wireless 802.11g pci suggestions


ff/rw MIGHT be a tab slower than directly on the backend machine but
only if you were really looking for it.  I can't tell a difference at
all in normal usage.  Probably the added ping time in going through the
wireless rather than just across the bus on the backend would account
for the lag.  I don't think turbo mode is currently possible though.  I
think they are more focused on getting cards working than getting cards
working faster...plus there are so many flavors of turbo out there if
they get it working for one card it will only help a subset of the
people who use madwifi.  That said I'm sure they would also welcome any
help:)

This brings me to my next point....why do people mount the server
filesystem on the remote frontend?  I don't mount my filesystem and when
I play stuff on the remote frontend it plays a url like this:
Input #0, mpeg, from
'myth://10.1.10.1:6543/1004_20040701230000_20040701233000.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s

I never mount the server up at all.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 12:10, Sager, Jim wrote:
> How is ff/rw working for you. I have a Netgear WG311T wireless PCI
> card
> in my backend and a Netgear WGT624 router. I use madwifi to get the
> card
> working. Don't know how to enable turbo mode (if it's even possible at
> this point). My frontend is hardwired to the router. ff/rw on my
> frontend
> is terrible.
> 
> The backend is set up using NFS to export /mnt/store. I mount this on
> my
> frontend and used mythsetup to set the recording directory to point to
> /mnt/store on my backend and set the backend server ip to the
> appropriate
> backend address. Everything works, but ff/rw is terrible. Is there any
> way to speed this up?
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Kelley [mailto:rhatguy at comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:21 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: wireless 802.11g pci suggestions
> 
> 
> I went with an all dlink setup.  di-624 router gwl-650 pcmcia and
> dwl520
> pci card.  All boxes are gentoo and all these seem to work fine.  I
> can
> watch all my myth stuff from any box in the house with no problem.  I
> can't use turbo mode (108 mb) because someone close to me has another
> access point on the same channel and it just causes to much
> interference.  54mb is fine though.
> 
> 
> 
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