I wasn't sure on where to post this because its a combination of software and hardware questions. I tried posting at the mythtv forums....but no answers. I like the people here anyways, they can speak noob.
Here is where the fun begins. I have two laptops and one desktop. My desktop is an Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) with a minimal (as much as I can make with a desktop environment) install of Feisty. Its hooked directly to my wireless router (a Belkin 802.11g) with a cable. My new laptop is a AMD 64 Turion single core. Then we have my poor old lappy with an AMD Sempron 32 bit. Both laptops have Feisty, just one has the 64 bit and the other has the 32 bit.
Okay, now that we have the mechanical preliminaries out of the way. I installed the mythtv backend and a frontend to my desktop. I used the howto guide to set it up and it works wonderfully. However, the problem is in getting my two lappys to run the frontend.
The howto mentioned about assigning a static IP address to the backend. I assume thats a static IP from my router. So how do I assign a static to my desktop from my router? I know how to access my router from firefox, I'm just a little unsure of what I need to look for and what to type in. (another small but quick question, will either lappy be able to watch the recordings well if they use the wireless? Its all in the same room, but I figure 54 Mbps isn't that much bandwith)
Here is where the fun begins. I have two laptops and one desktop. My desktop is an Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) with a minimal (as much as I can make with a desktop environment) install of Feisty. Its hooked directly to my wireless router (a Belkin 802.11g) with a cable. My new laptop is a AMD 64 Turion single core. Then we have my poor old lappy with an AMD Sempron 32 bit. Both laptops have Feisty, just one has the 64 bit and the other has the 32 bit.
Okay, now that we have the mechanical preliminaries out of the way. I installed the mythtv backend and a frontend to my desktop. I used the howto guide to set it up and it works wonderfully. However, the problem is in getting my two lappys to run the frontend.
The howto mentioned about assigning a static IP address to the backend. I assume thats a static IP from my router. So how do I assign a static to my desktop from my router? I know how to access my router from firefox, I'm just a little unsure of what I need to look for and what to type in. (another small but quick question, will either lappy be able to watch the recordings well if they use the wireless? Its all in the same room, but I figure 54 Mbps isn't that much bandwith)
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