Wireless streaming from Dreambox?

Supercell

I was playing around with the stream from my Dreambox to a pc using a crossover cable and was well impressed with the quality in VLC, it's pretty much exactly as it would be watching using my hardware DVB-S card.

I'd like to get a wireless router and use that to stream to another PC upstairs (in a room directly above this pc).
Not sure if this is the right place to put it, but has anyone tried this and would a standard 802.11g router be sufficient to do the job ?

kaisersose77

watching the man utd - reading match on my laptop atm, dreambox is connected to a linksys wrt54g router and then being streamed wireless to my laptop.

Supercell

kaisersose77 wrote:

watching the man utd - reading match on my laptop atm, dreambox is connected to a linksys wrt54g router and then being streamed wireless to my laptop.

Ahh, perfect

Hopefully going through a wooden floor/ceiling to the room above won't degrade the signal too much, have you tried that with your set-up kaisersose77?

dojo

I was thinking of doing something similar with 220volt ethernet plugs, has anyone ever tried this? what speed ethernet would i need for this ?

I'd need this as the main ethernet connection between the Dreambox and a PC for mail/rss/recording etc

I see Maplin have a 15mb and an 85mb version of the plug, would these be sufficent or would I need to go wireless?

Either way would be better than ripping up floor boards to bury cat5, and then I might want to place the Dreambox or PC in another location and have to start all over again.

jhegarty

Longfield wrote:

Ahh, perfect

Hopefully going through a wooden floor/ceiling to the room above won't degrade the signal too much, have you tried that with your set-up kaisersose77?

won't be a problem.. the signal goes though the 4 foot walls in my house without an issue... I used the wireless setup for aiming the singal in the garden..

Supercell

jhegarty wrote:

won't be a problem.. the signal goes though the 4 foot walls in my house without an issue... I used the wireless setup for aiming the singal in the garden..

Brilliant, now if my Dreambox could make toast.....

Truly this receiver is THE king of sat receivers

jhegarty

Longfield wrote:

Brilliant, now if my Dreambox could make toast.....

i take it your never left a slice of bread on the power supply...:D

humaxf1

sorry to hijack the post...

Is streaming possible between a nokia DBOX II and a PC using VLC?

TIA

Ronan|Raven

afaik it is possible, however just get "tuxvision" ad it should od the job for you.

serotonin_sam

My wireless setup isnt working all that well. Constant stuttering of received picture. I have read similar experiences from others on a couple of sat boards.

As regards the ethernet plugs, I think this is the way to go (but only with the 85MB version). On the downside, they are a bit on the expensive side - i'm hoping the price drops over the next year. Have read of positive feedback from folks using these as part of their dreambox setups..

Cloud

My wireless streaming works fine now but I found that stuttering can occur if (1) you are recording at the same time on the DB or (2) your wireless AP/router has some supposed 22M (instead of 11) "enhancement" - disable that if so.

kaisersose77

anyone who uses a 500s for streaming, it has a streaming bug and even though dream multimedia know about it, they have no intention of fixing it.

Supercell

Not knocking what you are saying kaisersose77 but wonder if many of these DM500 owners have bought cheap chinese knockoffs like posted here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055038121

I dont own a DM500 but can say with 100% certainty my 7020 doesnt do this unless I try it on my old P3 900 , and even with a crossover cable it isnt fluid, but its perfect on the newer Athlon system