Anthony Thomas
Occasional Visitor
Re-write - Wireless or Power Line
I'm a bit disappointed and thought since all this work goes into this page that posting here might help me make a clear decision.
I'll just have to investigate on my own.
To that end, I have come up with three possible solutions to slow file transfer speeds over my current 802.11g network.
First some background -
I had previous used a Buffalo Wireless G MIMO Ethernet Converter (Bridge) to connect both my HTPC and my Sony Playstation 2 to 2Wire Router (and previous routers). This unit died a few months ago, I wanted to replace it with a newer version.
But then the idea of upgrading to 802.11n popped into my head. It really hit me to upgrade when I recently moved 15.9GB of video files from my HP laptop (Atheros AR285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter) via the 2Wire Router (AT&T U-Verse 25-28Mbps connection) to my HTPC (Linksys Super G USB). This operation took 4+ hours to complete at a tire screeching 1.48Mbps. This can not be tolerated, especially while I'm considering adding a server to the network.
I recently bought a Hitachi 2TB drive and originally thought about adding it to my HTPC. But as I said, I'm considering building a server and don't want just add the drive to Windows Home Server and start moving things around before adding it to the storage pool.
So I am looking for the best way to get decent file transfer speeds, I have decided on -
Buffalo WHR-G300N ($40) and the previously mentioned converter ($61)
or
Brite-View LinkE 200Mbps Kit
I don't expect more than 50Mbps from any of these solutions and that's fine. That's still 4x the speed of the current G infrastructure with file transfer.
Instead of that, I could run (2) 75ft Cat5e cables from Monoprice ($7.62 each) but that seems messy and would take up three ports on the 4 port router when you add-in the server.
I should also mention I'm unemployed currently and my budget is somewhere below beer budget. I normally avoid used equipment though I might search CL for people that are unhappy with their wireless router performance in a crowded apartment building when I detect 5 networks in my area and all weaker (1-2 bars) than our own (5 bars at all times).
No problems with wireless here, all devices full bars.... (Laptops, G1, Iphone and HTPC)
Comments, Questions and Concerns are welcome.
I'm a bit disappointed and thought since all this work goes into this page that posting here might help me make a clear decision.
I'll just have to investigate on my own.
To that end, I have come up with three possible solutions to slow file transfer speeds over my current 802.11g network.
First some background -
I had previous used a Buffalo Wireless G MIMO Ethernet Converter (Bridge) to connect both my HTPC and my Sony Playstation 2 to 2Wire Router (and previous routers). This unit died a few months ago, I wanted to replace it with a newer version.
But then the idea of upgrading to 802.11n popped into my head. It really hit me to upgrade when I recently moved 15.9GB of video files from my HP laptop (Atheros AR285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter) via the 2Wire Router (AT&T U-Verse 25-28Mbps connection) to my HTPC (Linksys Super G USB). This operation took 4+ hours to complete at a tire screeching 1.48Mbps. This can not be tolerated, especially while I'm considering adding a server to the network.
I recently bought a Hitachi 2TB drive and originally thought about adding it to my HTPC. But as I said, I'm considering building a server and don't want just add the drive to Windows Home Server and start moving things around before adding it to the storage pool.
So I am looking for the best way to get decent file transfer speeds, I have decided on -
Buffalo WHR-G300N ($40) and the previously mentioned converter ($61)
or
Brite-View LinkE 200Mbps Kit
I don't expect more than 50Mbps from any of these solutions and that's fine. That's still 4x the speed of the current G infrastructure with file transfer.
Instead of that, I could run (2) 75ft Cat5e cables from Monoprice ($7.62 each) but that seems messy and would take up three ports on the 4 port router when you add-in the server.
I should also mention I'm unemployed currently and my budget is somewhere below beer budget. I normally avoid used equipment though I might search CL for people that are unhappy with their wireless router performance in a crowded apartment building when I detect 5 networks in my area and all weaker (1-2 bars) than our own (5 bars at all times).
No problems with wireless here, all devices full bars.... (Laptops, G1, Iphone and HTPC)
Comments, Questions and Concerns are welcome.
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