low-end PC for sage client box

[korben_dallas]

Will an AMD 950 Duron with 256MB ram and a Radeon 7000 32MB work as a SageClient box? What would it do well and what not well?

Also, it would have to be hooked into the network wirelessly w/ 802.11g, no cabling is possible in that room.

[AndyS]

That should be fine. Let us know how it goes!

Andy.

[pcuoco]

I run a dual tuner Sage server and playback machine on a PIII 650, so I think you'll definitely have the horsepower to use that as a client.

But I'd do a search on wireless connections, most people on the forums here haven't been able to reliably stream video over wireless connections, even with 11g.

[dagar]

What I want to know is that if a P3 500 or P2 450 can handle it. I'll respond when I find out!

[jptaz]

Several people have found that increasing the Disk Cache in the registry helps deal with problematic Wireless connections. Basically by doing this you read more of the Video file into memory before playing so minor hiccups in the trhoughput of the network do not translate into pausing or stuterinf during playback.

http://www.sage-community.org/index....-do-i-fix-this

John

[flashcore]

If your not using a Linksys access point you most likley will have no issues with 802.11g. For some reason Linksys access points have problems with constant data streams over the air i think the CPU in there hardware is way to underpowered for the job it is doing. I currently stream from my sage server over 802.11G/A (D-Link 7100AP) to my client PC that is hardwired to the network and i have NO issues at all using the default settings. Typicaly it uses about 5Mbit/s to stream the video and i have tested the access point with 5 PCs streaming at once with no lag at all.