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

[William Kenworthy]

Yes, you have to separate the bandwidth - if you have two groups of
machines on different channels, you will need to bridge them - I think
upnp needs to be on the same subnet.  2nd cheap access point may be the
way to go?

Also, if you can design it to be a totally isolated link, you might be
able to turn off WPA and gain quite a lot of bandwidth.  I would think
carefully about security and implications for the link ends first though
- I dont know enough about your endpoint and PS3 to say its safe or not.

BillK


On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:02 +0900, Lucas van Staden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see.
> 
> The netgear router I have is not that advanced.
> No QoS, and is a b/g router. Time for an upgrade me thinks.
> 
> Basically (from the other post received) I gotta try and get the PS3 -> 
> MediaServer WAN on it's own channel.
> 
> So other machines - channel 1
> PS3/Media Server - channel 6
> 
> When they are on different channels, that then means they can't 'talk' 
> to each other? Correct?
> So my machines won't be able to access the media server, until I put 
> that back onto channel 1.
> This will be an issue.
> 
> 
> -Lucas
> 
> 
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > 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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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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