alright, this is mostly a question for mac users, but if you windows users got some advice, i'd love to hear it.
anyway, i have a bunch of tv shows downloaded on my external hdd (scrubs, house, lost, bsg, etc.) and my roommate wants to watch them on his computer in the other room sometime. i have a macbook and he has a macbook pro, and we're both running leopard with file sharing on.
i'm using an 802.11g network and since about a month ago, the video streaming worked perfectly fine. my roommate could watch any and all shows that he wanted by simply connecting to my computer via the shared network. recently, however, the video streams have basically gone to shit. he can watch the shows for about 3 minutes before quicktime freezes up and basically crashes. vlc and mplayer both suffer the same problem.
i was wondering if any of you mac users with more than one computers can give this a try and see if you suffer from the same problems or not. i know upgrading to a 802.11n network would pretty much solve this problem, but i don't particularly want to drop $180 for a airport express right now. any help would be great.
thanks.