Vista Ultimate & Xbox 360 Media Centre Capabilities - A Way To Improve Performance
I have been using Vista Ultimate for a while now and one of the first things that I did was to upgrade from XP Media Centre 2005 to Vista Ultimate.
Let me explain my configuration - my Xbox 360 is connected to my wireless router over 802.11g and my media centre PC is connected straight in to the router at 100Mbps full-duplex.
Recently, I have noticed a performance issue with "Network Issue" becoming more and more regular when watching TV on the 360. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that if I powered off my Linksys WET54 bridge, the problem resolved itself. I cant keep powering off the bridge (as that is the connection my Exchange server uses), so this is the solution I have implemented today.
First of all, I installed a second NIC in my media centre PC and connected this up to a second wireless router that I no longer use. I assigned this network an address of 192.168.10.x and enabled the wireless network on a different channel to my "live" wireless network.
As there are only two devices on the network and only one wireless device, I have found performance to be fine and no "Network Issue" notification.
Moving the wirless router around in addition to this has give me a decent amount of signal bars and so far, so good.
