Comments on: Check out Bart’s SnapStream Setup in the Texas Hill Country

By: T.G. Sillery

T.G. Sillery — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:38:19 +0000

This look’s great, now please give us ALL the details! Thanks!

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:50:05 +0000

I ran a Cat5 cable from living to bedroom.
Living room to office is via Powerline network.
See more details on my blogsite accessible from the links in the text.

Bart

By: DeathWeasel

DeathWeasel — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:11:55 +0000

BeyondTV Link will work pretty well on wireless, at least with standard TV. Or there’s PowerLine networking.

By: kampswas

kampswas — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:33:14 +0000

Specs would be nice.

By: Michael Lomker

Michael Lomker — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:47:25 +0000

I just read the link to Bart’s blog and he provides more detail — he is using power line networking to connect his two PC’s. The approach that I used was about $10 in parts but it requires knowledge and a few tools.

By: Michael Lomker

Michael Lomker — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:42:23 +0000

Vern,

I’m not sure how he did it but I rewired my telephone jacks to use as Ethernet jacks. Some homes have 4 wires for phone and new ones generally have 8 going to each jack. Ethernet requires 4, so if that’s all you have then it won’t work for you if you use your telephone wiring (I use a cell phone).

You’ll need to use a toner/tracer to figure out how your place is wired. Phone jacks are daisy-chained from one room to the next. I just bypassed the jacks and twisted the wires together on the in-between jacks and bought a new wall plate and 8-position jack for the two end points. You might not get 100 Mbit due to the quality of the wiring in your home but I have had no problem streaming HDTV using BTV Link…that’s 20 Mbit.

If none of that made sense then you’ll have to find a phone/network geek in your area to lend a hand.

By: Vern J. Myers

Vern J. Myers — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:11:18 +0000

Hello Bart,
Very nice system indeed. How did you wire the TV’s in different rooms?

Vern