Don't be surprised if the updates slow down for a bit. We're revamping the architecture to reduce latency and support hardware accelerated encoding.

Cheers!

We have just updated the beta with the following changes:

In-Home Streaming Beta

• Dramatically improved performance of the streaming stats display
  
• Added support for multiple remote gamepads at game startup
  
• Account for slow capture time in streaming stats feedback
  
• Automatic framerate drops occur less often, thanks to community feedback
  
• Disabled QoS traffic priority since it caused performance problems and crashes on some wifi routers. This will be back later as an option.

Enjoy!

Everyone who has joined the Steam In-Home Streaming group as of right now has been granted access to the streaming beta. If you haven't gotten your e-mail, go ahead and see if it works for you.

To try out the streaming beta, start Steam and go to Account settings and change Beta Participation to "Steam Beta Update", then go to the Steam menu and click "Check for Steam Client Updates". Once you've done this go to the Help menu and verify that "About Steam" shows that it was built on Feb 4 or newer.

Do this for all your computers, and then log in with the same account into each computer you want to stream games between. If you have any issues, check out the In-Home Streaming settings for a link to the support article and additional ways to tune your experience.

Additional information and some known issues are here:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3629-RIAV-1617

We will invite new people in subsequent beta waves.

Enjoy!

Over the coming weeks we'll be running a series of experiments to tune our streaming systems.

For each experiment we'll post a thread in the discussions where we describe what we're trying and the feedback we'd like. We'll also accept a batch of new beta testers for each one.

Here is experiment #1: Framerate locking results?
http://gtm.you1.cn/groups/homestream/discussions/0/540732888826029525/

Thanks for helping!

LinusTechTips put together a great video explaining what Steam In-Home Streaming is, what it isn't, and stretches the technology to its very limits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIL71Q6eJ2Y&noredirect=1