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Originally Posted by arnee
I am currently using an old xbox as a media center, streaming media from my pc via a wireless (54M) bridge. It can be quite unreliable, even though I was sure the wireless should be quick enough (in a very small house).
My question is, I am putting together a parts list for a htpc, and I need to have onboard wifi, or add a wifi card - will this solution be quicker and more reliable than the wireless bridge I have setup ? I would hate to build the media center and then find that I can't stream media well enough. That would mean either transferring stuff physically to the htpc HD, which obviously is not the nices solution ..
Thx
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Simply changing to an HTPC instead of the old xbox may not fix the problem at all, the old xbox if you think about it (I'm assuming your running xbmc) has a much smaller OS footprint and less overheads than a full blown PC so it should actually perform better than a PC. I'd first have a better look at the wifi set up you have.