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HDTV over WiFi: tips and tricks {Engadget HD}
Dec 15th 2005 5:40PM I watched an interview of two guys on the Xbox 360 team on Channel9. BTW for those who have never heard of Channel9 (channel9.msdn.com), it is a site run by Microsoft employees that is filled with interviews of nearly all the dev teams at MS, and covers all their upcoming products. Most of them are very interestng especially if you are a Windows developer. I highly recommend checking it out. Anyway in this interview they said that for wireless media center extender functionality with the Xbox 360 that they only recommend 802.11a because it will give the best performance. I would like to hear of someone's experience with an 802.11a connection. I just picked up a Netgear dual band AP/router that does 802.11g/a from Fry's Electronics for around $40 on sale, with the idea in mind that when I get an Xbox 360 and wireless adapter that I would already be set up for 802.11a. What was also attractive about the Netgear AP is that you can run both radios simultaneously becaause they are in different bands and you can dedicate the "a" radio to the XB360 and leave all your other wireless clients on the "g" radio. This would work fine for me because I have no wireless a adapters on or in any of my computers. I did however have problems with the Netgear, on wired lan, which would slowly reduce the bandwidth at which a very large (150MB) file would come in. It would begin at 160KBps or 1280Kbps or 1.25Mbps, which is my DSL's max downstream rate, and would decrease and eventually settle at 40KB. Anyone experienced this? So I plan on taking it back for a replacement and hope it was a hardware defect. Netgear's phone support seemed baffled. As soon as I switch back to my old router the speed shot back up.
Sub-grand WMCE 4: configuring the PC for HDTV {Engadget HD}
Nov 30th 2005 5:32AM Of course you can include an NTSC/analog tuner in it; if you want to. But if you have OTA digital/ATSC why in the world would you want the analog. As soon as I got my HDTV Wonder intstalled in my WMCE and saw what an improvement the SDTV content was over analog, not to mention the HDTV content,I unhooked the analog antena and erased all the analog stations. They were complete crap.BTW I get more digital stations than I got analog. The PBS, NBC, ABC, and PAX affiliates all run multiple sub-channels where I live. BTW. I had to chuckle at your gripe. I had the exact same reaction, however I knew the limitation before I bought the HDTV Wonder. Incidentally I left my analog tuner in the case because I thought I had to. I was upset because I wanted the space for another card. One night while I was fiddling inside the case I accidentally tore off a cicuit mount capacitor on the analog tuner and thought "Oh crap, it might screw up the digital tuner!", but I just yanked it out and the HDTV Wonder kept on chuggin. The only thing is though, is that if you want to change TV settings in the Settings menu it scans for the analog tuner and will not let you make changes if it is not found. So if I want to make a change I just put it back in and everything is OK (even though I probably ruined the analog tuner-I never tried to test it)
