[xsuperbgx]

I am just about to finish up my Htpc build and was trying it. I was trying to stream a movie from my gaming pc to the htpc over wireless and was getting quite a bit of skipping and choppyness. I don't think that it was a wireless issue because I streamed a HD movie from the internet, over the same wireless, without any issues. The wireless is a wireless n and had full bars of signal. I haven't tried any DVD or bluray playback because my drive hasn't come in yet. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

Htpc:
Silverstone GD05B
Pentium G840
H67M-D2-B3
4GB ddr3 mushkin 1600
AMD Hd5450,
Ati Theater 650
Lenovo N5902
Windows 7 x64
Corsair 400W

Thanks.

[Cerberus2k7]

What about hard drive speed? Also streaming over the WAN link is still going to be compressed quite a bit.

[Neuromancer]

Were you actually streaming it or just playing it off the remote HDD?

I ask because I had the exact same situatino with wirelessN. I can STREAM HDD fine but playing back from a network share was choppy.

You have to tweak the wireless settings on the router and TBH I forget what they are. IME wirelss just does not work very well. And the "reported" speeds you can connect at (150MBps/300Mbps are a complete fallacy. I maxed out at 1MBps on wirless N 300 (three channel router and PCIE device) and now that I downgraded to 150 (I moved) my main PC has trouble sustaining over 400 KBps

[xsuperbgx]

I was probably just playing it from remote hdd. I just set up media center library to see the folder on the other pc.

I assumed that since it could stream an hd movie over the internet that it could surely play a standard def movie from the other pc. I guess I could run cat5, but I didnt really want to.

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by xsuperbgx

I was probably just playing it from remote hdd. I just set up media center library to see the folder on the other pc.

I assumed that since it could stream an hd movie over the internet that it could surely play a standard def movie from the other pc. I guess I could run cat5, but I didnt really want to.

Wired is the only way to go IME. I reserve wireless for ipods and other mobile devices. (Even laptops get hardwired at the desk).

Streaming will buffer the signal so you wont get that choppy playback. I could wireless stream a 1080P video off the Internet over my wireless N connection, but still not from access shares (was so bad even SD movies skipped until I tweaked the settings)

[xsuperbgx]

Here it is in the shelf. I need to drill a few holes for wires. Temps went up to low 50's C (100% load on FAH) when I put it in there. Case fans are at 7V.