Streaming wireless audio to home theatre

[jon1117]

Couple of quick questions here for anyone who knows about this. Im looking at buying a wireless audio component for my home theatre system made by SMC called EZ-Stream. Connects to home theatre via RCA and supports 802.11g protocol wireless transmission from a PC. Transmits MP3, radio, video and pics to my TV and home theatre system. Currently my PC is connected to a routered network via Cat5 cable with the router being plugged into cable modem and is acting as the DCHP host.
I was thinking of buying a wireless NIC and putting that into my PC to stream to the wireless audio device while keeping my regualr NIC for my internet/network access. The audio device uses internet connection to look for firmware updates which i can allow through ICS on my PC (i think - tell me if i'm wrong). Can anyone forsee any other problems I may have running two NICs one Cat5 and one wireless in the same PC, but using the wireless strictly to stream to the audio device?

 

[pmf71]

Yes that shouldn't be too much of a problem, but you must adhere to the following:

Put your wifi nic, and corresponding nic on the other side in a DIFFERENT subnet than your wired NIC, for example:

Wired : 192.168.1.100
Wifi: 192.168.2.100 and 192.168.2.101 for the other side

in which case the PC will create it's own static routes to route the data correctly.

 

[bcastner]

You would not place them on seperate subnets if you were to use ICS.

Remember too that you are creating an Ad Hoc and not infrastructure wireless network.

 

[bcastner]

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/networkbridge.htm

 

[pmf71]

the audio device will then be seperated by two routers if you connect it through your pc with ICS to the router to the internet. that means that static routes will have to be made on your pc so that packets from the SMC box find their way to the internet, and vice-versa.