HD wireless streaming, possible with WLAN 125Mb/s (1 Viewer)

[MrMech]

... The key difference might be that Vista uses SMB2.0 protocol (which has improved performance), compared to XP (assuming that you were testing on XP).

Agree, such might improve situation yes. XP was used for bluray sharing, but have also tried some HD content from NAS drives and linux cifs&uPNP shares. Some solution could benefit from jumbo frames etc, but I did not bother to study bottlenecks as upgrading to 1Gb lan meant less than 50 Euros for a new switch.

 

[Lotsofjazz]

just wroted about bluray sharing from TV-server to this thread.

Since IO is not necessarily optimized for streaming heavy content from network shares there must be very responsive transmit-layer below. Even when compressed HD streams should fit fine on underlying bandwith the result with software optimized for local HD responces might screw things up. E.g the iSCSI shared bluray drive + PowerDVD solution - in above referred thread - seemed not able to play BD-content well with 100Mb FD LAN. 1Gb seemed enough if overall utilization stays below ~30%. My home LAN is not tested for 1Gb - so there might be some problems at that level - but It feels pointless to try good quality HD streaming with any wifi solutions.

Practical application of above situation proved to play fine on my system (look left)

I have tried this last week with an ISO of a blue ray, stored on the NAS (100mbs NIC), mounted with DeamonTools, played with PowerDVD8 Ultra... perfect !, no glitches whatsoever, cristal clear picture, smooth playback, even the menus work fine. With the Information window on I could see the videobitrate spikes sometimes to 35mb/sec .

Better then many HD WMV movies I also have, but I cant say if the network is the culprit, I shoulkd try to play them locally as well to make sure that it is a network issue..


Lots

 

[MrMech]

Hi I have been using a NAS (Linksys NSLU2) connected to my router via a 100mb switch and with 54g wireless connection between the router and MP and all works fine with x264 files, and all SD files, one thing with WiFi to be wary of is that you can only use 3 of the available wireless frequency's, 1, 6 and 11 if memory serves, something to do with the way WiFi works and you must make sure that nobody else nearby is using the same or close frequency's to you or you will get interference on your chosen channel. I use channel 1 as this seems to be a channel that most people do not choose and seems to have less interference where I live.

Also agree that SD and recompressed/rate-limited HD files might work fine - its all about bandwidth and overhead. Also, some cheap NAS drives might not be able to even provide HD datarates. Man should note that Bluray datarate might top to 54Mbps - which will not go through 54g wifi channel and would be quite hard for all PC solutions available.

 

[lsandini]

just wroted about bluray sharing from TV-server to this thread.

Since IO is not necessarily optimized for streaming heavy content from network shares there must be very responsive transmit-layer below. Even when compressed HD streams should fit fine on underlying bandwith the result with software optimized for local HD responces might screw things up. E.g the iSCSI shared bluray drive + PowerDVD solution - in above referred thread - seemed not able to play BD-content well with 100Mb FD LAN. 1Gb seemed enough if overall utilization stays below ~30%. My home LAN is not tested for 1Gb - so there might be some problems at that level - but It feels pointless to try good quality HD streaming with any wifi solutions.

Well in my case I use a D-Link DGL-4300 router (108Mbps) with a D-Link DWL-M60AT antenna, that serves all my house (on 2 floors), and also my neighbour, to whom I granted one IP based on his computer's MAC address. He gets a 1 Mbps signal at 30% signal strength, enough for basic surfing.

My router is upstairs, and my HTPC is downstairs, connected wirelessly with a D-link DWL-G520 (108Mbps) card, on which I also mounted a DWL-M60AT antenna. I stream 1080p from the server upstairs to my HTPC, and it starts to stutter when the kids use the microwave oven, or when someone downloads actively on some other computer connected wirelessly in the house. Streaming 720p works perfectly.

(I just made holes between the 2 floors for LAN cables though...)

HTH

Lorenzo