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Posted by Todd Bowra [MSFT] on December 12, 2006, 2:14 pm
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#3 is going to depend upon your home network - if you have wired Ethernet,
you have plenty of bandwidth to spare. On the other hand, if you have
802.11b, it's guaranteed not to work well - 802.11b maxes out around 5 Mbps
of throughput while TV content is ~8-9 Mbps. This results in a situation
similar to trying to park a semi truck in a compact parking spot (i.e. it
doesn't all fit). In the middle, there are 802.11a and 802.11g, both of
which can work fine depending upon how many signal degrading
walls/obstructions there are between your access point and wireless router.
I've run both G and A at home and had a great experience with HDTV playback,
with A being slightly better.
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> Been reading in here and doing alot of google searches on using extenders
> with MCE. I need opinions on my situation.
> I don't have an xbox and don't plan on getting one. I game on computer
> only.
> I have an MCE laptop setup for gaming. I would only use MCE in the living
> room where the TV and stereo are. Only one person would be using it.
>
> I'd like to use MCE for the following things:
> 1 - watch DVD's (store bought and home burned) Big for me as my home dvd
> is
> a cheap one and barely plays home burned dvd's.
> 2 - watch video files (divx, xvid, avi, mpeg)
> 3 - listen to my whole collection of cd's thru my home stereo without ever
> having to touch an actual cd again.
> 4 - view pitures on the TV
> I have a DVR already and don't have a tuner card so the TV part I don't
> need.
>
> I have read that extenders will not:
> 1 - play the dvd's from my laptop dvd player (unless I rip it to drive)
> 2 - it will only play certain video files (wmv, mpeg)
> 3 - has network congestion problems
> 4 - only extend MCE, not the whole windows desktop
>
> Since #1 and #2 are out or very limited, #3 concearns me and #1, #2, #4 I
> can do with s video out to tv, does this make sense to spend $300 on one
> of
> these units. The wireless is a plus for sure, but the limited times I'll
> use
> it for dvd's, videos, or picutres, I can go s video out to tv. Down side
> of
> this is that I have to put the laptop by the tv when doing dvd or video or
> have s video cable go across the room. Not a big deal for me right now.
> For
> sound I found a unit that logitech makes that uses a proprietary wireless
> signal to send sound to any home stereo. So that takes care of music.
> So I'm thinking an extender is not for me, at least not until they get
> more
> sophisticated. What do you think?
> Thanks.
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