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[jstjohnz]

I doubt that 802.11b will be satisfactory for streaming video.  At best you can only expect about half of the rated speed, so 5 mb/s is about the best you will do, less if you are any distance away.

Maybe for a single user, but I wouldn't count on it.

-jim-

[chief]

so do you think 802.11g would be fast enough?

[fishy]

I'm on a 802.11b Network, and I stream Divx movies just fine.

[Driver]

I have not seen a Divx movie that required more than 2 megabits per second, which is way under the 802.11b bandwidth of 11 megabits per second.

[sinister]

It's possible with an 802.11b network but there are situations where it simply doesn't want to work. It pretty much depends on the signal strengh and quality that you can get.

[nancy_kerrigan]

I stream all my divx movies from the CDROM drive of my PC to XBMP without any problems at all. Im using a surecom 5 port switch ($50 AUS).

keep in mind that when streaming a divx movie it's only transferring probably less than 1mb/sec.

[spunky]

is it possible to stream from a wireless connected pc to an xbox which is connected to the wireless router using a straight thru cable or does the xbox have to have an ethernet bridge ?

cheers

spunky

[X-ace]

I stream movies all the time from my laptop to my xbox. And the laptop is connected via a wireless 802.11b card to the router. Divx, avi, mpg. It's all good.

Now, as contrary point, the speed gains you may get for other purposes, may be worth getting the "g" version.

And; when moving files to and from the xbox, connect via cable. Wireless is cool, but wireline is fast.

[X-ace]

QUOTE (spunky @ Jun 23 2003, 08:02 PM)

is it possible to stream from a wireless connected pc to an xbox which is connected to the wireless router using a straight thru cable or does the xbox have to have an ethernet bridge ? cheers spunky

Not exactly sure what you're asking, but you put the router relatively close tothe xbox, and you lay a regular ethernet cable over there. No other boxes necessary. (And cable us cheap. In fact, I somehow always end up with 2 or 3 extra.)

[X-ace]

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[cardboardbox]

I checked the tutorials and didnt see this...

How are you setting up your xbox to use your wireless network?

[spunky]

I have a str thru cat5 cable ethernet cable connected between the chipped xbox and the wireless router. It has an executer v1 installed with mediaplayer v2.2.

The PC has a usb adapter from linksys.

I checked the ip address for the xbox which i put in flashfxp but no connection.

The router is recognising the connection and so is mediaplayer because the shared video folder comes up but when you try to access it mediaplayer freezes.

I have a hunch its the router software but im not sure what settings may cause the problem.

Any ideas

Cheers

Spunky

[X-ace]

QUOTE (cardboardbox @ Jun 24 2003, 07:08 PM)

I checked the tutorials and didnt see this... How are you setting up your xbox to use your wireless network?

The tutorial you use is the same as setting up network for the xbox to do anything.

Now use a wireles router instead and you are done. (need cable connection to the xbox)

[X-ace]

Spunky,

what's your network setup in xbmp?

[trob]

I posted a new product coming out soon.  Its a ethernet wifi adapter that will plug into the xbox and enable it to work on a wifi lan.  I will bump the post.