Re: Best wireless router & cards for high-speed cable connection?

["AZ Woody" <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The other thing about wireless, it it's often left "unsecured".   They did a
news story here where a reporter and a guy with a laptop drove around
various areas looking for open connections..  It was quite interesting.

A chunk of enet cable won't be hacked unless someone's in you house and not
a 100' away.


"kony" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 May 2005 00:59:35 GMT, newbee
> <wireless@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >P.S. Second question, please: What would be the best way to not only
> >connect that 2nd computer to the Internet but also to connect the TV
> >in that room to my main Media Center computer? Dell offers a solution
> >(http://snipurl.com/ewgq), but the $399 seems excessive (perhaps I'm
> >wrong, of course).
>
> The best solution there is to forget that you have the media
> center PC and connect the other one to the TV via video card
> with TV-Out, and connect the two systems by wire, not
> wireless.  Wireless will inherantly be slower and suject to
> occasional dropouts.  The slower part also reduces the
> quality you can send to the TV from the media center PC, but
> is again a reason not to use low-quality high compression
> rather pulling the files across the wired lan to be played
> by the PC next to the TV.
>