Can you run Sage on a wireless network?

[sdotstiz]

Anyone - I was considering buying a few Apple TV's so I could watch movies stored on my office computer wirelessly in my living room, basement, or bedroom. Since then I ran into the sage box and I think it's a better fit than the Apple TV due to the supported formats. I really just want to know if I can set up the Sage TV on my wireless network? That way I could just buy 3 of these Sage TV units and have access to my media in all 3 locations without the hassle of wired units.

Thanks,
Shawn

[GTwannabe]

The problem with wireless is intermittent but severe bandwidth drops due to interference. It'll work fine until you run the microwave, or a neighbor uses a 2.4ghz cordless phone or sets up a Pre-N router close to your network's channel.

[sainswor99]

Your Mileage May Vary; some people have no issue, others can't get it to work at all. I've had great success with a pair of wireless-N bridges, but the distance is relatively short (25 feet or so), and I'm not running HD.

To get ethernet to my bedroom (second floor, other side of house), I ended up buying a couple of Motorola NIM-100's (ethernet over coax) from eBay, and they work fine for me (again, no HD).

Stu

[pjpjpjpj]

Seems like the consensus I have seen here in the past year is "SD can work fine in reasonable situations, HD is sketchy in all but the absolute best situations".

And obviously, as with all wireless, YMMV, depending on your distance, locations of equipment, etc.

[w84no1]

I have 2 MVPs and 1 STX-HD200 running on wireless G. Yes HD is a no go except in the best of situations. But I have noticed that the HD200 is starting to suffer with SD content over wireless. I am getting ready to try out a couple Motorola NIM-100's so I can have HD on my STX-HD200.

If you are not doing HD or live TV, I would suggest getting some original xboxes off ebay and putting XBMC on them. That was my old setup. I had a NAS with all of my DVDs and other videos on it and used the xboxes at each TV. It was rock solid over wireless until I decided to go HD.

[sandor]

i run a client and placeshifter (all HD) over 802.11/n without a problem. maximum distance is (through ceiling/floor) 30 feet, with the client machine being about 10.5 feet directly above my wireless router.

[autoboy]

I ran MIMO G with HD and had good success. It never really went out on me. However, I had a special setup that I had to research forever. It ran atheros 3G chipsets (rangemax but not all rangemax are 3G) and it tended to squash all other network traffic in the area. Since it squashed the other traffic, I had no issues running HD but it is kinda mean to your neighbors.

If you want to run 3 systems and run them all at the same time, wireless is a little iffy.

[flavius]

I have run SD over wireless G for a while without any issue, but with the advent of the HD extender I needed something else - two NIM100's have taken care of this for me.

[stevech]

me too. Standard Def with MVP works fine as long as the signal strength is excellent and you have no bandwidth-hog neighbors within 3 channels of yours.

But HD, that takes a bit more than 11g can do. And 11n is no faster, unless you can operate in the 40MHz mode, and that's difficult to do at all, much less reliably over time. And usig 40 of the 60MHz available is a bit rude unless you live on a farm.

[m1k3g]

This is something I simply gave up on after months of trying. Sage just simply doesn't seem to be able to function properly over a wireless connection. I have had XBMC running wirelessly for almost 18 months (both the XBOX & PC version) and it has mostly worked without a hitch, but I could rarely get Sage to work for more than a few minutes without severe stuttering. Finally gave up & ran cat5 through the attic..

[Arioch5]

I've been running SD to a client over wireless G (probably 15' from router to client upstairs). I've even on occasion accidentally streamed a HD show upstairs though most of the time that's a no-go. For normal stuff (SD/DVD/music) I've had no problems at all.

I'm happy enough with wireless service that I'm installing wireless-n next weekend and both the server and client will be wireless at that point in time. I am getting a dual band router (5Ghz and 2.4Ghz one for client one for server), but with the performance I've seen so far N shouldn't have any problem with even an HD stream. I do live in a house and have relatively few people around to generate interference. I've never seen my microwave cause a problem with my wireless, I'm sure that's 100% dependent on your environment.

[stevech]

WiFi 11g. Standard Def. MVP extender, using a wireless bridge to a wired MVP, not a wireless MVP.
50 ft. range. Ideal signal strength. One wall in the path
Works fine, because that uses only 6Mbps of the 22Mbps available (IP layer).