wireless setup - how did you do yours?

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techead

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I bought myself one of these yesterday, it has wireless built-in which is quite nice. seems its not quite practical though, and I'm wondering if I'm hardware limited or what the story is.

I have a ADSL router with wireless built-in. Its quite a old one and doesnt have N. The 1GBPS router is connected to the ADSL router via cable and then cables throughout the house.

Setup everything and tried to stream (from a LAN source via 1GBPS router) a 720p movie. Didnt even load. Think I saw the logo for like 1 sec but it froze solid.

So I tried to play a 350MB xvid avi file, and it did play but it was like 5fps... very very sticky and all weird.

The WD unit is about 5m from the ADSL router, as was reporting 60% signal.

Is my router cr@p? If I wanna fix this, should I get a better ADSL router with better wireless, or should I simply replace the gigabit router with a decent gigabit/N router and leave the ADSL router alone?

Im not too clued up on wireless, so I appreciate the help here
 
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SiriS said:
Should've bought the ATV. ;) :D

Is your PC and WDTV connected on LAN via a gigabit speed switch/router or wifi?


EDIT/ seems like the WDTV has gigabit ethernet issues, could influence the 720p streaming, but 10/100 should be more than enough for xvid/avi 350Mb file. /shrugs

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/Gigabit-Ethernet/td-p/319909

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Ideas/Need-1Gb-Ethernet-on-WD-Live-SMP/idc-p/323387#M424
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PC with the media Im streaming from, is connected via gigabit

WD is connected via wireless G

Im thinking an access point will be the answer here?
 
techead said:
PC with the media Im streaming from, is connected via gigabit

WD is connected via wireless G

Im thinking an access point will be the answer here?
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Rather connect the WDTV with LAN cable. Wifi streaming is always a bit flaky, especially with HD content. More so if you're on "G", not "N".
 
SiriS said:
Rather connect the WDTV with LAN cable. Wifi streaming is always a bit flaky, especially with HD content. More so if you're on "G", not "N".
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yeah Im starting to think to hell with this wireless, and just run a cable!

gz on 6000 posts ;)
 
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