I've got a few questions that all basically relate to what people are using for a video source. I'm assuming that those of you using multiple tuner cards in your myth boxes are using coax splitters to split your cable signal to go into each card, right? (I'm just a little concerned about signal degredation, as I was a cable guy for a summer, so I worry about using too many splitters.) If that is the case...I had an idea to combat the problem and wondered if it would work... If you run one mythTV backend, and a few frontends, can those frontends be used without any video source other than the backend? In other words, can I use mythTV frontends as a video source for all TV viewing, and then have NO coax from the cable tv hooked up at all?

(btw, I don't have a mythTV setup yet, I'm just thinking about options way too much before I finally sink some money into the whole project.)

well yes as long as your network connection is fast enough the frontends do not require a tuner. (802.11b won't cut it) However you will only be able to use one frontend at a time and will not be able to record anything if you are using any of the frontends to view livetv as the only tuner you have will be in use.

Would 802.11G do the trick? This D-Link router claims 108 Mbps, but I'd assume that's sending and receiving at the same time...so 54 Mbps. I'm on a wired network right now, but I'm moving soon to a house where I won't be able to do any drilling to run wires.

well 802.11g does have enough bandwith, the problem becomes finding 802.11g cards with linux support.

Doh, hadn't thought of that. That line of D-Link (AirPlus Xtreme G) was the stuff I was hoping to get. Anyone know if there's any linux support for the cards?

I don't think there is "out of the box" support for any wireless G stuff in linux, and the only real open source drivers I'm aware of are the prism54 drivers, although that requires kernel module compilation etc. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not familiar with them.