Wireless Media Adaptors

[simontreen]

Has anyone toyed with one of these yet...for all the Luddites they are a means of getting music (wirelessly) from your PC to your HiFi Amplifier.

I have been thinking of getting one for quite a while and with my birthday approaching have dropped some heavy hints with SWMBO for the Creative Labs Music Box (Ebuyer). Any comments or personal experiences?

[davidcollins01]

I think they are a good idea. I saw one today by linksys or belikin cant remember and it was 80 quid in a computer shop. I like the idea of a "hub" for your house so you could have loads of these at all points in your room and play different tracks to each. One for videos would be very good too - then a central server with Wireless access point.

OOOO its a slippery slope from now on

[simontreen]

I get a mag. sometimes called DigitalHome, they do have video adapters as well can't remember any brands off the top of my head but I do remember that they are a lot more expensive and need a fast network connection to work properly.

Some of the custom installations they show have huge central media servers, distributing audio & video to multiple rooms but these tend to cost more than the average house so will have to wait until after my lottery win.

[Stimps]

If it's just mp3 you should be ok on a "slow" wifi connection...

Is the creative box the one with the fat remote complete with an iPod like interface (i.e. browse by genre, group, album, etc)?

[ColinD]

Gigabyte networks are in the home market space

Wireless now it's breaking past 11mps is viable for quality video streaming.

Thus I think your looking at a good present idea. If you enjoy music on your hifi but your pc is upstairs with half a lifetime of MP3 on it, brilliant

There are many ways to skin a cat however, even more to solve an IT problem.

[simontreen]

If it's just mp3 you should be ok on a "slow" wifi connection...

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That's the one - you're right it'll work on an 11mps network.

[On-my-4th]

Have a look here http://www.broadbandstuff.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=133

Linksys so it should be ok and less than 50 quid aswell