Multicast - Home Hub Wireless?

Is it possible to enable the home hub to send multicast signals over its wireless network?
My hub was installed upstairs and my YouView box is downstairs, so a cable is out of the question. I have my YouView box connected to the wireless network through a wireless adapter that supports multicast I just didn't realise that the homehub did not! (I did think at the time of ordering that it was odd they didn't reccomend a wireless adapter but they didn't advice agaisnt it either!)
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If you mean replacing the single cable (or short cables and powerline adapters) connection between the HomeHub and the BTTV box with a wireless bridge then you wouldn't need to support more than two multicast streams at any time.
The BTTV box can only tune into a maximum of two streams at the same time (watch/record or record/record). The BT local multicast system is only providing to your house the one or two streams that you are currently tuned into. That is why it only needs a minimum spec of around 15Mbps (to cater for two simultaneous HD channels), and yet can in theory offer the viewer a choice from several hundred channels. The customer having Infinity guarantees this minimum spec is met.
Back to the question of whether you can use a wireless connection between the HomeHub and BTTV box? The HomeHub won't send the multicast output over it's in-built wireless as far as I know, so I think you would need to use wireless dongles at both ends that mimic a hard-wired ethernet connection. I see no reason why this wouldn't work in theory as long as the signal was stable and fast enough. It would need to avoid interference from the normal wireless signal from the HomeHub if that wasn't turned off.

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