[mythtv-users] Playback issues with myth frontend over a wireless network

[William Munson]

ccmail at bellsouth.net wrote:
> William Munson wrote
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>> As others have previously stated your performance heavily depends on 
>> your location and the number of other wireless devices in range of your 
>> router. Where I live there are more than 20 wireless systems within 
>> range of mine. There are 6-7 systems on channel 6 and 4 more on channel 
>> 11 and the rest are spread around the other channels. This means that 
>> whatever channel I use the router will be forced to deal with 
>> interference. This absolutely kills the bandwidth.
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> In certain situations wireless may not be practical but to state that 802.11g inherently doesn't have the bandwidth to handle SD and HD TV streaming is not accurate.  You may have to take steps like replacing your 2.4 GHz cordless phones with 5.8 GHz models but they're dirt cheap now ($30 at Circuit City for example), especially compared to the cost of a MythTV setup.
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In a perfect world it can barely do HD with a single client and no 
neighbors for 200 yards however in the real world you would need to 
replace your phone, all your neighbors phones and their wireless routers 
with some other technology not to mention all the many other devices 
that run on the 2.4GHz band. So except for the very lucky, wireless G is 
not an option for HD. Wireless N and N+ networks however are a different 
matter. They run at 4 times the power and use a completely different 
encoding method for ~8 times the bandwidth and much greater immunity to 
interference. They should be able to handle multiple HD streams sent to 
different clients.