I've come to the realisation that I don't play as many games as I used to because my desktop computer is stuck in a different room of the house, and it can be pretty anti-social to go off there to play games.  Also, in winter, it's not particularly warm in there.

I've been contemplating getting a gaming laptop, but my desktop is still powerful enough to play most games, and it seems a shame to let it go to waste.  So I've wondered whether it's practical/feasible to implement some kind of game streamer, so the desktop can "host" the game and do all the heavy lifting, and I can get a medium-range laptop for gaming anywhere in the house over the LAN, and possibly hook it up to the TV with a wireless keyboard/mouse for full screen gaming from time to time.

However, I'm skeptical about how effective this would be.  I can forsee some big latency issues over the wireless network (currently wireless G), and if I used a wireless mouse/keyboard on the laptop, then there's likely to be even more issues with responsiveness.

Anyone used a game streaming system?  Are they worh the effort, or is it just asking for problems?  A quick google came up with streammygame.com.  I haven't looked into it in any depth, but as its free to try, I might give it a go tonight...