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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Osho on May 10, 2007, 12:33:15 pm
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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
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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Some phones run at 5.8. I don't know whether that would help.
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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.
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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 (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6306/index.html).
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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.
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Some phones run at 5.8. I don't know whether that would help.
Yes but no microwave runs on 5GHz!
Osho
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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