[plug] Wireless-N router for faster wireless....

[William Kenworthy]

If you have a g/a router, can you create a virtual AP on the A band for
the streams only? - or buy a second AP that does A?

VLAN's with QOS may be another possibility depending on the capabilitoes
of the hardware.

I can stream mythTV at SD over g while my son is playing games without
either being affected.  HD only works with the laptop next to the AP
(lack of bandwidth).

In reality, separating the streams by using a second AP or spit as
suggested above is going to be the best solution.  Sharing bandwidth can
only go so far :(

BillK


On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 01:40 +0900, Lucas van Staden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I stream media using MediaTomb to my PS3,  and when any of the other 
> machines are very busy on the network, then the PS3 media stream lags, 
> and the video stutters badly.
> 
> On my home network, I have my webserver, my media server, my office 
> machine, two laptops and of course the PS3.
> 
> I am wondering about possible ways to improve the speed (or more 
> accurately, available bandwidth) between the media server and the PS3, 
> when I am busy with a stream.
> 
> First thoughts - Hardware upgrades:
> 
> I am considering updating my 'g' router to an 'n' router, and thus also 
> updating my network cards to 'n' compatible ones.
> I know the PS3 can only do 'g/b', but I figure if I upgrade the rest of 
> the network, to 'n', then the PS3 stream will have more bandwidth 
> available.
> Is my assumption correct here? Chances are that once the other machines 
> have more bandwidth available, they will just hog it all again, and I 
> will be back to where I started.
> 
> Another option would be to go with the 'n' upgrade above, but also get 
> an extra router, and connect that direct to the PS3 wired network port, 
> and thus get the ps3 to get onto the 'n' network.
> Again, the other machines could just hog more bandwidth, as there are 
> more available.
> 
> Second Idea:
> 
> Throttle the other machines when I stream to the PS3.
> Personally I think the throttling would be the best (and cheapest) 
> option, and one that I can actually control.
> 
> Any thoughts on this please, on how to improve the PS3/MediaTomb streams?
> 
> -Lucas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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