wMVP is wireless worth it?

[kirschey]

Hi,

I am thinking about buying the wMVP and I was wondering if anyone has any advice on the wireless playback ability of video with such device?

I am running a Celron 2.4 GHz CPU with 1.5 GB RAM, will that be good enough for the video streaming of DIVX. I have a lot of DIVX or XVID.

Thanks for the tips.

[rscheller]

I have two MVPs running on a wireless accesspoint and the entire system works almost flawlessly.

I do get an occasional network glitch which will cause the wMVP to reload the remote GBPVR application but I'd say not more than once a week and once you've been through a few network loss glitches, they're just a minor annoyance and you just wait for it to reload (about 30 secs) and you take off where you left off.

I'd guess my network loss is caused by some local interference drowning out out my D-Link accesspoint 2.4GHz signal. Since I'm usually only seeing 2-3 out of 5 bars of signal strength on my MVPs, I'm considering getting a signal booster to see if that helps.

[kirschey]

Sounds like the wireless works, thanks!

[cginzel]

tipstir,

something sounds counter intuitive about that suggestion... wouldn't interference have something to do with the frequency as well and the path between the source and destination? are you saying the AM radio frequencies are "close enough"?

[Braklet]

Sounds like the wireless works, thanks!

I have a wMVP and have gotten it working nicely with GB-PVR.

Note of warning, the Hauppauge goobers have NOT added WPA support to the delivered flash firmware! Your only choices are WEP or nothing.

I've gotten conflicting information from two different Hauppauge customer service reps. One claimed WPA is a selectable item on the flash firmware (it's not), the other claimed WPA was under development but no estimated delivery date.

After a lot of screwing around, I downgraded my wireless LAN to WEP-128 and the wMVP works like a champ now.

[bungle]

I've gotten conflicting information from two different Hauppauge customer service reps. One claimed WPA is a selectable item on the flash firmware (it's not), the other claimed WPA was under development but no estimated delivery date.

I got two non-responses, and one that essentially said they'd forward the request for WPA to the developers.

[kaffeen]

There are much better alternatives to the MVP coming out now or in the fourth quarter (i.e. xmas). Take a look at the Netgear EVA700, it looks pretty awesome and supports Netgear Powerline technology. All for about $250.00.

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There are much better alternatives to the MVP coming out now or in the fourth quarter (i.e. xmas). Take a look at the Netgear EVA700, it looks pretty awesome and supports Netgear Powerline technology. All for about $250.00.

There are already plenty of devices that sound better than the MVP on paper - the real advantage the MVP has though is that it gives you the full GB-PVR user interface (scheduling recordings, tv guide, plugins, watching live tv etc). Most of these other devices are just simple file players.

[paperchaser]

I remember at some point people were using ethernet->wifi gaming adapters to get the MVP wireless, and now it seems that there are many cheap wifi routers with hackable firmware to transform them into wifi extenders/adapters. Most of these devices are WPA capable.

[kaffeen]

There are already plenty of devices that sound better than the MVP on paper - the real advantage the MVP has though is that it gives you the full GB-PVR user interface (scheduling recordings, tv guide, plugins, watching live tv etc). Most of these other devices are just simple file players.

This is true, if you want all the GBPVR goodies you will be required to get the MVP. I guess that you want it this way. Do you plan to support UPNP in the future? Will GBPVR work on any Linux kernel?

For others not familiar with UPNP, GBPVR *can* run side by side with a UPNP server (i.e. TVersity, TwonkyVision, et al).