Streaming DivX over WiFi

[imported_CromsDog]

I'm trying to stream DivX over my wifi from my desktop to my laptop using VLC. The desktop has a 802.11G and the Laptop a 802.1B. The picture never comes up. I know I can do it from my wired network at work to a 802.11g laptop with no skipping but I was wondering if 2 wireless's with one being a 802.11B card is asking to much. Anyone else ever try this setup with good results? If I make a wired connection from my desktop will it help?

 

[AFB]

It should be fine. *


*as long as this single stream is the sole traffic

For future reference, it autonegotiates down so if you're using a 'B' card and a 'G' card, the lowest speed wins. Now, you can check a little box to prevent this, but then it will prevent the cards from communicating together.

 

[sharkeeper]

What's the data rate?

The max that B can sustain for extended periods isn't much over 4Mbps. And that's total throughput.

Cheers!

 

[Garion]

People around here do seem to be adverse to math..

Most DIVX movies are about 700MB. That works out to about 7000Mb (Yes, I multiply by ten instead of 8, but it usually works out OK to include network overhead). The average movie is about 90 minutes long. This works out to about 78Mb per minute. Divide that by 60 seconds and you've got about 1.3 Mb/s. No problem.

- G

 

[imported_CromsDog]

Thanks for the replies. I figured out the prob. was in the laptop itself not the network. A PIII 450Mhz IBM thinkpad just does not have enough booty behind it for DivX playback. The processor peaks out and frames are missed. Oh well.

 

[Fardringle]

I actually have a PII 333 Mhz laptop that can play DivX movies if they are stored on its local hard drive. It fails if I try to play them from CD or across the network since the 'effort' to read from the CD or from the network as well as decoding the movies is just a little too much for the computer to handle. It sounds like you probably have the same situation.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I got a 650MHz P3 laptop that streams a 700mb DIVX it just fine across a wireless network using BS Player. Perhaps your wireless network isn't configured as sweet as it could be.

 

[imported_CromsDog]

How dare you imply my network is not as sweet as it could be!!!!!

Nah I can stream video's fine to my work laptop (Dell Inspiron 9200 with a 802.11G). I tried playing the DivX back directly on the 390X harddrive with slightly better results (thanks for your input Fardingle). It only drops a few frames here and there and skips a little. The prob is that it still would take abot 30 minutes or so to pull the video file across my wireless and it seems like a waste to burn it on a cd-r just to transfer it.