[vdr] Re: OT: WLAN

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Steffen Koch schrieb:
> 
> On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:19:20 +0200, Emil Naepflein wrote:
> 
> >> >WLAN is certainly to slow for a time critical stream with 500 KB/s. You
> >> >will be happy to reach the 500 KB with normal data transfer. Just have
> >> >look at the tests that were published in several magazines.
> >> I've a tekram WLAN AP and two tekram WLAN PCI-cards. They work fine and
> >> I get ftp download from my vdr machine with approx 800 KB/s...
> >I use Lucent Cards with a ELSA AP and get about 500 KB/s with WEP
> >enabled.
> >Are you using WEP?
> no. I can't. The connection breaks after a few seconds with WEP
> enabled... Now I use access control via MAC-address...


Ever thought about using 2 wireless networks with 2 cards on different
frequencies. With proper filtering in front of the cards it might work
quite well. Then we would not only have more rubust transmission, but
also about twice the bandwidth.

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