Trying to stream movies

I have a MacBook Pro, 15-inch, Late 2008, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63), NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics. Was told to get Dynex Mini displayPort to HDMI adapter.  I'm trying to stream movies.  When I hook everything up I get pic but No sound.  One person said that I don't have the right motherboard?  I'm no techie so please don't go to crazy with instructions!

Dpends on several things:
Biggest is:
How many simultaneous users will be connected to your Internet at once?
If it is just you only streaming one at a time, 25M should be fine.
If you add more people and/or more streams, then you need to upgrade accordingly.
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