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[Osho]

Hi,

I sometimes have trouble with playing files on NAS due to wireless performance issues. Particularly for DVDs ripped in full resolution. I have so many jitters and pauses that it ruins the experience of watching movies. I was wondering if it would be possible to increase buffering for all files residing on NAS?

thanks,
Osho

[park]

I'll second that. I'm experiencing the same thing with hd trailers that I've downloaded and try to play over my wi-fi network.

[bob]

I believe most wireless is half duplex, this means for the ack packet to get sent back to the originator the wap has to switch from transmit to receive which takes a discrete amount of time (this may not still be the case but I think it is). Buffering may (or may not) help this.

I assume that it works fine if you don't use wireless.. Are you running at 54mbps?

[park]

My router is ".n draft 1", but my client pc is only "g". I have managed to minimze the jittery playback if HD a little by setting a specific channel on the router and playing with it's antenna to maximize the signal strength on the client pc.

I wonder if MC stops doing background tasks during video playback or not. Thumbnail building, checking/downloading podcasts etc. could all take up valuable bandwidth. How does MC work in this regard?

[Osho]

I replaced my g router with 802.11n draft router.. I also replaced the card in PC - but I still had issues with the connection loss. It was much better though but still every once in a while (partiularly while using microwave or cordless phone - both of which run on 2.4GHz band) - I will experience jitter/hick-ups.

thanks,
Osho

[JimH]

Some phones run at 5.8.  I don't know whether that would help.

[benn600]

That's strange because I am able to play VIDEO_TS dvds fine on my wireless g network.  And it usually runs at less than 54 Mb because I'm too far away.  If I'm not mistaken, DVDs are running at around 8Mb/sec so you've got 48 Mb or so!  That's six times the data rate required.

[glynor]

Some phones run at 5.8.  I don't know whether that would help.

It does, quite often.  We replaced our 3-4 cordless phones at the office with 5.8GHz models, and amazingly the wireless network reliability skyrocketed.  Of course, we're using very high quality WAPs.

[benn600]

I loved an experience I had at Radio Shack quite a few months back.  We were buying a cordless phone on the 900 MHz frequency and somehow, the guy (no idea why) was really pushing for a 2.4 GHz model and saying it was so much better.  I just told him that our 900 MHz phones work fine and our wireless network is very important.  He would not let up--oh, it won't interfere, blah blah blah!  I know huge issues that can arise.  It was a horribly confusing experience that the employee just seemed utterly confused and flustered...only to present dead silence when I finally proved him wrong.  He just would not give up.

[Osho]

Some phones run at 5.8.  I don't know whether that would help.

Yes but no microwave runs on 5GHz!

Osho

[Osho]

That's strange because I am able to play VIDEO_TS dvds fine on my wireless g network.  And it usually runs at less than 54 Mb because I'm too far away.  If I'm not mistaken, DVDs are running at around 8Mb/sec so you've got 48 Mb or so!  That's six times the data rate required.

Could you please tell me what DVD filter are you using ? Maybe it has something to do with which filters I use..

Osho