Watch movies over wireless

muscle

Hi

Im on vodafone at home connection and want to watch movies on laptop downstairs which are on pc upstairs

Is this possible through vodafone router or would there be a lag on movies through shared folder?

Thanks
Noel

Paulj

Should be fine as long as both pc's have fairly good wireless signal strength. I do this with my UPC router and its fine. It might slow down things for other pc's on the network though.

RangeR

The more devices that are using wireless simultaneously, the slower the wireless will become. If you are having issues, can you connect one of your computers by cable?

Either way, if both of your computers are getting near 100% signal you should have no issues. Once it's not HD movies. HD will probably drown your wifi connection.

If you are still having issues, a small work around would be to copy the movie to your laptop, maybe an hour or so before you want to watch it. Then just watch it locally and delete. No good for impulse viewing, though

bonzodog2

If they are DivX/xvid movies, and the PC is wired to the router, bring the laptop to the router and plug that in too, then you'll get a better transfer rate and should be able to copy say 1GB in < 2mins. Or copy to an SD card or USB stick.