well i was thinking that if virgin dont offer a wirless router, ill just buy one...connect my pc to that ( I wont then need to install a wifi card in my main pc right?) and then the revo and my pc can talk through the wifi router. i.e internet on the revo+ file tranfers!
2009/12/9 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> > javadayaz wrote: > > well i was hoping to have the wireless router installed upstairs with > > the revo installed in a the living room getting its data from the pc > > upstairs through a router! > Virgin should be able to do that, it's just a case of running a cable > from the main box on the front of the house to upstairs (I'm assuming > it's Virgin Cable broadband rather than Virgin Broadband over at BT > Phoneline?). > > In the days of NTL, they did this for me, I had a phone connection in > the front room and a cable connection to the upstairs back bedroom. > They ran the cable round the side of the house (it was a > semi-detached). I'm not entirely sure how they would do it on say, a > terraced house, they might possibly run a cable inside the house. > > If all else fails and they can't put the router upstairs for any reason, > all you'd need is a wireless card for the PC and then the PC would > connect to the Revo via the router (I'm guessing, it might even connect > directly to the Revo). > > I would have thought if you could get a reasonably quick signal you > should be able to stream SD and HD video as long as the bit rate isn't > too high. IIRC Bluray video is about 40MBit/sec, so I'd have thought > that Makrosa video files (h264 video) would be less than this, maybe > nearer to 10MBit/sec. > > If all else fails, you can always go down the Homeplug route, or other > half dependent, put in some CAT5/CAT6 cabling. > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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