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.
>
> Any handy tools for measuring actual bandwidth? I'm presently
> wondering about Performance Monitor on Win2000 however.

The simplest (and most reliable ) method to see actual bandwidth is to
copy
a file!  Find a file over 100MB and copy it across the network. 
Time how
long it takes, and work out your average network speed from that.

Andy

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