Re: Streaming Video Over A LAN

[Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>]

> What would you use to stream a video over a LAN, specifically over
WLAN
> at 6-10Mbs?

Have you checked how much bandwidth you're actually getting?  ITYF you
don't get 6Mbps.  802.11b is rated at 11Mbps, but you'll generally
only 
see half of that, ie. 5.5Mbps.

> I'm trying to stream a DVD from one machine to another on the WLAN
and
> get a pretty poor result with it using Power DVD.

I thought a DVD was about 2Mbps?  I expect I'm very wrong though!

Andy
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