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Wifi though USB1.1

  • 07-09-2006 2:42pm
    #1
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I'm thinking of getting a wifi usb dongle for an old p3 laptop. I'm wondering if I'll have enough bandwidth to stream live video with it. I'm talking standard avi's and divx files. I heard somewhere that you'd need at least 8mbit/sec to fully stream a DVD.

    So considering a 54mb/s wifi card (lets say 24mb/s at a software level) and USB 1.1 is said to have a max transfer of 12mbit/sec so I'm sure I'd have enough. Has anyone tried this? I don't want to waste money on the dongle if it wouldn't be fast enough


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Is there no PCMCIA slot you can use for the Wifi card?


  • #3
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Moving to wireless forum


  • #4
    BobTheBeat
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    PCMCIA would give you anywhere from 66 to 122 Mbps (depending on how old the card is your using and data encapsulation it implements).


  • #5
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    There's something wrong with it, its not working at all! I thought it would be handy to use the laptop as a kind of media center, seen as the rest of it is grand, but I don't want to have to bring an ethernet cable from the wifi router upstairs to the front room.


  • #6
    riptide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭riptide


    Well, I'm using a P2 laptop as a sort of smoothwall sharing the connection between all my other machines, through a USB 1 wireless network adapter.


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  • #7
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    Deadly, so it would be good enough? Thanks for the help


  • #8
    riptide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭riptide


    Zapho wrote:
    Deadly, so it would be good enough? Thanks for the help
    Well, its good enough for me. The max speed I got out of it running Majestic12 (see sig) was 1.5-2 Mbps. Now unless you want to run gigabit stuff ove a lan, 1.5-2 should be good enough for Broadband etc. Hell, I even streamed an episode of lost across my own network into WMP10 on that laptop from my main rig. Ran perfectly. ;)

    EDIT: i just re read your opening post. When you think about it what the max throughput of USB 1? About 1Megabyte per second. Multiply by 8 and you have your max Megabits per second. Around 8Mbps.


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