johng Blog

I have been meaning to hookup my family with wifi for a while now and today I got the chance. It was also a chance to finally ditch that god awful USB ADSL ‘modem’ they have had since getting broadband all those years ago. Coming home and connecting up to a 10mbit LAN with using ICS felt so bad on so many levels I can’t even begin to describe. So I went for the Linksys WAG54G to kill two birds with one stone, it gives us a nice bit of 802.11G and that extra layer of security and stability that no USB device can provide.

When I am back here I tend to connect my Xbox up to the big screen in the living room and stream video down from my PC upstairs using XBMC. Of course this is a cabling nightmare as we don’t have CAT5 in the walls (does anyone?). A few months ago I bought a WRT54GS, that goes unused while I am here, so I have fully reconfigured it to work with the xbox in client mode. It’s working great so far, I am able to stream video from any system on the network and it pulls stuff of the internet very quickly. I’m sure if I tried some HD stuff it would fall over but for Xvid it works very nicely. The firmware from Sveasoft does the trick nicely.