[ale] Better ISP?

[Rich Faulkner]

Wireless Wii == no HD quality.  I'm running wired Cat5 in the house to a
Samsung BD w/onboard NIC on AT&T 6MB DSL and get HD as well as 802.11(G)
and the studio Internet connected machines.  Still...looking forward to
when FTTH comes to our neighborhood (or a functional "equivalent") as
we're looking to add a couple more BDs to the mix.

RinL



On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:50 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>         Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>         
>         
>         >     Do they run new wires outside or inside or both?  I
>         suspect that where
>         >     I'll want the device inside the house is on the complete
>         opposite side
>         >     from where the wires enter the house.  Luckily it's an
>         unfinished
>         >     basement, so shouldn't be too hard to run the wire
>         across it.  :)
>         >
>         > The new line was from pole to "modem". After the modem you
>         run cat5e on your
>         > own. Pick a central location with a power socket nearby and
>         pull wires around
>         > the house - OR - plug in a wireless router running ddwrt and
>         crank up the
>         > output signal :-)
>         
>         
>         Yeah, well, the modem can't live where the wire comes through
>         the wall;
>         that definitely wont pass the WAF.  But I'm happy to have a
>         dedicated
>         coax that runs to where I can house the modem, and then of
>         course I'll
>         run Cat5e or Cat6 through the house.
>         
>         Wifi wont work; it's not good enough yet (and definitely not
>         good enough
>         for HDTV).
> 
> he, he. all of the bad hdtv we see comes from comcast cable line (not
> the same wire as my data) . We stream netflix over wireless to the wii
> with no problems even with 2 other laptops in use on the same wifi AP.
> 
> of course the wii doesn't _do_ netflix in HD (no hdmi port).
> 
>         
>         Thanks.
>         
>         
>         -derek
>         --
>               Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>               Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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