vulcan4d
2005-05-12, 05:33
howdy folks. i've been around for a while, just now decided to post lol. there was a point when i wanted to sell my xbox, that was before i found xbmc. *now i want a xbox in every room in my house! *the problem with such a setup is the need to run cat5 wires all over the house aswell, which i will never do again since i started using wifi ^^. *xbox controller ports are actually usb ports, which i'm sure most of you already know. *with the right support in xbmc, one could forget about using cat5 wire and stream video/music via a usb wifi adapter.
onto the technical side the xbox's usb ports are v1.1, meaning maximum speed of 11mbps. *having tested the speed between xbox<->router<->pc w/ usb 1.1 wifi the maximum speed i ever got was 400kb/s. *that may not be enough for high resolution video like dvd, but having tested it i could you could do 1gig/1hour videos at the most.
so for the most part video should still be good being streamed through usb 1.1, and of course music would have no trouble at all. *i care more about playing music then video but of course i'm not the only one here ^^. *wifi usb adapters are getting very cheap now, even 802.11g usb adapters, and with some support in xbmc and a simple xbox controller break-away cable modified with a usb plug at the end one could simply just plug the adapter in and voila. *xbox2 is soon upon us, xbox1's will be sold dirt cheap and you can bet i'll have one in each room of my house. *hmm, maybe even bathrooms lol. *xbox has become the heart of my entertainment, thanks to xbmc. *now if only it supported usb wifi adapters, i would never leave the house ^^.
onto the technical side the xbox's usb ports are v1.1, meaning maximum speed of 11mbps. *having tested the speed between xbox<->router<->pc w/ usb 1.1 wifi the maximum speed i ever got was 400kb/s. *that may not be enough for high resolution video like dvd, but having tested it i could you could do 1gig/1hour videos at the most.
so for the most part video should still be good being streamed through usb 1.1, and of course music would have no trouble at all. *i care more about playing music then video but of course i'm not the only one here ^^. *wifi usb adapters are getting very cheap now, even 802.11g usb adapters, and with some support in xbmc and a simple xbox controller break-away cable modified with a usb plug at the end one could simply just plug the adapter in and voila. *xbox2 is soon upon us, xbox1's will be sold dirt cheap and you can bet i'll have one in each room of my house. *hmm, maybe even bathrooms lol. *xbox has become the heart of my entertainment, thanks to xbmc. *now if only it supported usb wifi adapters, i would never leave the house ^^.