how is your htpc sending data across the house to other clients?

how big are your files? I wanna stream strait dvd rips I dont think i can stream strait blu-ray rips to easily. Will that stream LiveTV and a movie at the same time with no hickups?


This is my situation here, Bedrooms will have a htpc client or ps3 (whatever is cheaper) to pull movies from my htpc server in the living room. I want to stream LiveTV from the living room to my bedroom. My sons room has his own satellite receiver. both sat stb are Vip-211 HD recievers. I will be getting the HD-PVR soon to record shows off the Dish box and to stream them to both rooms at will.

I think that about sais it all, so I'm concerned that wifi wont have the mmph to stream all that download somthing here and there and let the ps3's (assuming i get these if i can get two cheap of craigslist) play on the psn.

Is this just not going to work at all or am I on the right track here.

I dont want wires at all if possible. Right now I have a router and cable modem that i have network cables to my dish box for ordering ppv and what not, a ps3 in living room, and htpc server. Those cat5 cables are under a big throw rug in my living room.

So if wifi N router can handle all that pull then that would make life easier, but I dont think it can, If I'm wrong let me know and tell me how you have it going and what it can do.

Thanks for everyones help.
Travis
 
Gigabit wired for my 1080p high def material and BD/HDDVD rips.
 
all wireless N devices are still draft, which is limited to 54Mb/s. The final standard is supposed to be 300Mb/sec. You are no better off (for throughput) right now by having N over G or A (well...maybe A) other than distance of signal is supposed to be better with N. Also, consider that most consumer level wireless routers, access points, etc only have 100Mb uplink ports. That means with two clients on a wireless N draft device, you've already oversubscribed your uplink to the media server. Now, whether or not your wireless clients are actually pulling 54mb/s each is another story. It's over subscription versus saturation (potential link over usage versus actual link over usage).

I'd say 100Mbit or 1Gb would be the way to go. That being said, I've got a fricking Actiontec in my computer room, upstairs on the West end of the house that is talking to my Buffalo (DD-WRT flashed) 4 port router that is acting as a wireless G client bridge. The Buffalo has the x360 and a laptop acting as a media player (hooked to 56" DLP and receiver). So I can preach it, but I can't afford to fix it.
 
Gigabit wired here. Have a draft-n/gigabit router but my gaming pc and my media server pc are gigabit wired, just my GF's laptop is on the wireless. It only has a 100baseT network port on it anyway.
 
sabregen said:
all wireless N devices are still draft, which is limited to 54Mb/s.
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hmm, well my Draft-N is connected to my HTPC at 96mbps right now so not sure how that is......


i would go with gigabit wired with that type of useage...

wireless N can handle 1 stream of HD live TV but not multiple.

from my experience
 
how is the playback on ripped bluray/hddvd's over the gigabit wired? Is there skipping or pauses? I'm about to do the same thing over my DLink DIR-655 and I wanted to know if it was going to bothersome.
 
I've tried streaming m4v files over 54G to my VMC box and it just does not work. Once I my VMC starts getting severe packet lost, the video stops and freezes.
 
alright wired it is damn i was hoping to not have wires everywhere, thanks for the help guys. :)
 
Zefram0911 said:
how is the playback on ripped bluray/hddvd's over the gigabit wired? Is there skipping or pauses? I'm about to do the same thing over my DLink DIR-655 and I wanted to know if it was going to bothersome.
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works fine. my files are straight .EVO HD-DVD rips, at this point. I got the video demuxed and coded to .mkv containers, but I am having trouble converting the .MPA audio to AC3 and remuxing it to the .MKV file, not to mention the sync issues. I cannot comment on Blu-Ray over the network, as my only BD player is the PS3.
 
Is there a way to just rip the bluray.hddvds... then mount it off the network and play it? Or is the HD material just too much to stream as ISOs or something?
 
Zefram0911 said:
Is there a way to just rip the bluray.hddvds... then mount it off the network and play it? Or is the HD material just too much to stream as ISOs or something?
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I save myself the need to mount anything. I just have PowerDVD 7.3.3319a and play the direct .EVO files from the HDD on media server over the network.
 
I stream my 720 and 1080p rips over my network. Just running a 54mbps router. I've watched 1080p rips that were ~8gb for a 1.5 hour movie. Not sure on the bitrate on that. Unless you're watching very high bitrate 1080p movies, there is no need for nothing more than 54mbps.
 
Gigabit Ethernet here aswell. IMO its the only way to go. Yet in my experience, 100Mbps Ethernet works fine aswell for streaming 1080p MKV's.
 
I use a wired network.. I run TVersity on my PC, and it encodes/streams movies to my 360 to watch on my TV.. :) works like a charm..
 
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