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here's a question...

in order to stream from your computer network to your tv thru something like an n-box or a dvd player, can you use the wireless adaptors that are out there ?

such as:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tenda-W311MI-150Mbps-Wireless-N-Pico-USB-Ad...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tenda-W322U-V2-0-Wireless-N300-300Mbps-USB-...

any idea what speed or bitrate it would need to keep from stuttering and stalling?

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Permalink Reply by officerripley on February 5, 2013 at 4:22pm

Yeah, I'd be interested to know this too; thanks for any info.

Permalink Reply by Pete48 on February 5, 2013 at 4:27pm

Problem.....

The short answer is no. You can stream from a pc to a home theater setup, but not with the adapters you're referring to. Those 2 items are meant to permit connecting a laptop or a desktop pc that may have a broken internal wireless LAN adapter to a wireless home network.

Streaming media content from your pc to your HDTV requires more sophistication and expense.

I'd suggest you stert by going to youtube and searching for "How to stream movies from a pc to a home theater". You can also do a google search on the same string of words, and get a lot of information that way. That'd be a good start!

Pete

Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on February 5, 2013 at 4:29pm

i shoulda known..life couldn't be THAT easy...if it was too good to be true, it probably wasn't true...bah humbug...and balderdash...

Permalink Reply by Pete48 on February 5, 2013 at 4:52pm

Problem/Ripley...

here are a couple of links that explain it all....and the expense that goes along with it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDoGbnhuAE

http://www.digitaltrends.com/how-to/how-to-stream-audio-video-in-yo...

Can you say "HDMI"???? :)

Pete

Permalink Reply by officerripley on February 5, 2013 at 8:01pm

Thanks, Pete!

Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on February 5, 2013 at 8:20pm

thanks pete.course i guess one alternative is transfer to a flash drive and play each individually.......or even play the disc...shaazam!

Permalink Reply by Lip Service on February 6, 2013 at 1:46am

First you need to define what is it you are streaming in order to guess how much throughput it will consume. If it is audio for example it would be at most 0.1 Mbps so any wireless router should be good enough. If you are streaming video to a large HD TV then you can calculate how much you need to stream per second depending on the size of that screen and its refresh rate.
Rule of thumb says divide your nominal router throughput by three so if you have a 55 Mbps router (802.11g) then expect about 19 Mbps in practice

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