Streaming over wireless

[Freakatola]

Looking to move my Desktop from the basement to my room to sub as a TV. It is also my torrent box. Previously on Wireless G (router/adapter) Running a download and streaming video to my xbox 360 has a rather crippling effect on the wireless all together. but even without the downloads going on, streaming over wireless (1 device or the other.. not both at the same time) seems to be such a waste as there is constant pauses for the video to buffer. Any idea on setting changes that may help keep things chugging along?

Or does Wireless N really offer much benefit over Wireless G when it comes to these types of uses?

[Gizmokid2005]

I'm only running wireless G in my house, and I can stream ripped DVD's from my server to my laptop all day long without problems and the rest of the network is still fine....that's running h.264 video in .mp4 format. What's the signal strength, and how's the interference, etc?

[Freakatola]

Well Typically I stream AVIs when it comes to shows/movies, I find it will play just fine for a few minutes, but then it will stop and buffer for 30 seconds, or st-t-t-op and st-t-t-utter for a while until it catches back up. I suppose I could pickup a quality wireless adapter while i'm out tomorrow and give that a shot. Something tells me a PCI adapter should fare better than a USB adapter.

[Gizmokid2005]

Yeah...a PCI adapter should be better...but then again..the encryption makes a difference too...my dads laptop is dog slow on WPA2...and it's still slow on no encryption...but not as bad...

[Freakatola]

Yeah so far so good, bought a dlink wireless G adapter for under $50.. and it seems to stream alright.. I just haven't figured out what's keeping me from remoting in with VNC over the LAN. worked fine when it was wired, so clearly a wireless setting, just not sure if the Linksys router has any blocking mechanism or if its the adapter.

[Gizmokid2005]

Glad the new adapter helped. Make sure that the port is open in the firewall across all your network connections...depending on the firewall it might be blocking on certain interfaces...

[Freakatola]

Hmm.. works fine with Windows Media Connect to be able to stream videos, but Not able to see anything through explorer or once again to use vnc