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crashwg:
I've got a couple XBOXs in the house that I use for streaming media among other things that up until now have been connected via wired LAN.  With a recent rearrange it would be much less cable-cluttered if I could use a wireless game adapter (wireless bridge) on the XBOXs to connect to the network.

So who has used 802.11G (the fastest wireless bridge I've seen available) for streaming media (xbox or not) and what have been your experiences?

I've heard that G is fast enough for most video files as long as you don't get up into hi-def stuff but I'm not exactly sure what that means...  I've downloaded xvid and divx files of all different sizes that have claimed to be "hi-def" that were about as average in size as any other file but also have seen some that were double in size, like for instance one episode of Bionic Woman I d/led was 700 some-odd MB compared to the 300 some-odd that they usually seem to be for a ~43 min show. 

Also, I rip movies to my computer.  Full disks (like 8GB) which I sometimes feel like watching before I shrink and burn them to disk.  Will those be watchable over G?

Donkey_Kong:
Well this may or may not help you...

I ripped about 100 or so DVD's onto a 2tb Terastation and streamed it through the house over the 802.11G Linksys with Speed Booster. Worked great throughout the house until the terastation took a dump. It should work fine for you...Not sure if we had tried any high def files, but I don't see that being an issue either.

 :cheers:
 

SavannahLion:
I have an unmodded early gen WRT54GS. It runs fantastic when I'm wirelessly streaming video or data to/from a wired point. It doesn't do so well when I'm doing the same with two wireless points.

When I stream data with two laptops, there's no problems. It's only with the laptop and the wireless desktop. I haven't quite figured why this is.

edwardvci:
I am also using 2 older wireless linksys G's  My htpc is storing my DVDs uncompressed and streaming to my laptop with no problem. Also divx is streaming OK also.

btp2k2:
My fiber optic connection is over a 802.11g and it smokes.

I can download 4 gig files in about 10 hours and I am on the other side of the house from the base

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