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----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Biro" <vabiro@yahoo.com>


> If you want to use wireless (and I sure do), I would stick with an
> enterprise-grade product, or use 10/100baseT wired. In any cse wired
> connections will always be faster than wireless, so pulling wire would
offer
> sometning with a longer life as you needs evolve.
>
> I'm curious how you make out with this. Could you let me, and maybe the
list,
> know how you make out?

The problem that I am trying to workaround is that my DSL line comes in
through the back of the house (with my main PC in close proximity), and my
DirecTV line comes in through the front (with my TV next to it, and where
I'd like my future, small, quiet MythBox to be), which creates a problem in
locating the front and back ends.

Based on what I'm gathering (thanks to folks who have replied), I have two
options:
1. Run a cat-5 cable through the house
- Assuming the mythbox is diskless, it would boot off network, and would
contain the video card and capture card, and simply store everything on a
remote disk.
- Poking holes in the walls isn't an option, so I'd have to run it along
the baseboard, crossing through two rooms (cabling under one door).

2. Make it a dedicated mythbox (with HD, vid card, and capture card) running
both front/back locally
- Use a wireless connection to connect to the other boxen and surf, etc,
but nothing too demanding

3. Do both 1 & 2 (wired & dedicated box)

Right now I am leaning toward 2, since I dislike cables, especially in
doorways, and it seems like everybody wishes they had more storage, so it's
an excuse to buy another monster HD. Additionally, I can always run that
wire if I really do need network storage (or wait to see what WiFi-g can do
under linux).

At 03:41 PM 6/5/03 -0400, Latka wrote:
>The problem that I am trying to workaround is that my DSL line comes in
>through the back of the house (with my main PC in close proximity), and my
>DirecTV line comes in through the front (with my TV next to it, and where
>I'd like my future, small, quiet MythBox to be), which creates a problem in
>locating the front and back ends.

My solution to the exact same problem (well, I don't have DTV) is a
wireless access point (I got a D-Link 713P for $50 after rebate) and a
wireless bridge (also a D-Link, also $50). My WAP is in the back of the
house with the other computers and the DSL line, and my Myth box will just
plug into the wireless bridge once I move it permanently to the living room.

If you have a box with enough PCI slots you could use a normal wireless PCI
card as well, but I wanted to minimize cards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hartman" <mythtv@elmegil.net>


> At 03:41 PM 6/5/03 -0400, Latka wrote:
> >The problem that I am trying to workaround is that my DSL line comes in
> >through the back of the house (with my main PC in close proximity), and
my
> >DirecTV line comes in through the front (with my TV next to it, and where
> >I'd like my future, small, quiet MythBox to be), which creates a problem
in
> >locating the front and back ends.
>
> My solution to the exact same problem (well, I don't have DTV) is a
> wireless access point (I got a D-Link 713P for $50 after rebate) and a
> wireless bridge (also a D-Link, also $50). My WAP is in the back of the
> house with the other computers and the DSL line, and my Myth box will just
> plug into the wireless bridge once I move it permanently to the living
room.
>
> If you have a box with enough PCI slots you could use a normal wireless
PCI
> card as well, but I wanted to minimize cards.

The box I just bought only has one PCI slot (Shuttl SK41G), which will be
eaten up buy a capture card (winfast tv2000xp ). I was planning on doing
something very similar to what you're doing. I found a Siemens Speedstream
wireless fw/nat/router/print server for $40 (damn thing even has a COM port,
so people driving by will be able to change my sat channels), and if I can
configure it to work as bridge, I'll pick up a second one and just use the
onboard eth0 port.

I'd be interested to know what kind of bandwidth you get across that
wireless connection, i.e. enough to stream/capture etc.

At 02:17 AM 6/6/03 -0400, Latka wrote:
>I'd be interested to know what kind of bandwidth you get across that
>wireless connection, i.e. enough to stream/capture etc.

Hm. Wasn't reading closely enough; I plan to use my network just for xmltv
and access to the box, it's a front/back in one. There have been other
threads in the archives about streaming over wireless, dunno if you've seen
them.