Wireless-N Experiences

[lparkin]

Originally Posted by stevech

You're speaking of HD TV, I assume. Streaming SD works just fine with 11g speeds of 36 and 54Mbps air link rates. I'm guessing SD streaming of mpeg2 takes about 4-6Mbps at the IP layer, and that needs to be on an underutilized channel so there's room for occasional retransmission delays in the wireless medium.

Sorry for the late reply...I can stream HD also using wireless N. I have an HDHomeRun and have done it wired directly to the second nic on the server and wired to the router, streaming wireless N to my server. No issues.

[willgill]

I've got a D-Link DIR-655 Gigabit Draft-N running as a access point (no DHCP). I consistently get 240Mbps connections to my HTPC about 30 feet away with Linksys Draft-N PCI card with external antenna. The D-Link DIR-655 was decently priced and looks great mounted upside down on my ceiling. It's white with white antennas. You don't even notice it.

The "root" of my system is a Linksys WRV54G
I only use one of the 10/100Mbps ports to go to a
Linksys EG008W 8-port Gigabit switch
The D-Link DIR-655 is fed a Gigabit link off one of the ports.

I stream HD, music, and even have a throttled FTP server off of the HTPC via wireless. Everything works great.

In case you were wondering why I don't use the D-Link DIR-655 as the root of the system, it doesn't have VPN endpoint like the Linksys WRV54G. I also wanted to put the D-Link, which has draft-N, in the center of the house as an access point.