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 EUSKill cancerPremium
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Re: WD Live-Media player Hm, so I'm guessing my old linksys wireless @ 54Meg will probably not cut it @ 1080p
I have no media @ 720, either regular dvd iso backups, or 1080p mkv backups.
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| said by EUS:Hm, so I'm guessing my old linksys wireless @ 54Meg will probably not cut it @ 1080p
I have no media @ 720, either regular dvd iso backups, or 1080p mkv backups.
I have never been able to stream 1080P to my WDTV live via wireless. Nor my Patriot Box. This is with a TP-Link 1043ND running Gargoyle firmware. I'm really not sure if it's a limitation of the wireless implementation in the firmware on these media devices or what, but it's ugly. I mean, these are very small units with ultra-small processors and diddly for ram, embedded Unix most of them. The Patriot unit has a fan, the WDTV unit does not. Honking wireless connections I'm sure are not part of the grand scheme of things.
I could stream run-of-the-mill media files no problem. You know the kind. 700MB, 2 hours long. As soon as the bitrate got cranked up the wireless would kack. It varied, file to file, but anything 2 hours long greater than 3GB had issues, 5GB got ugly, and 10GB files just outright b-b-b-b-barfed.
The support forums operated by the makers of these devices are littered with similar stories - folks just plain disappointed in the wireless. It's junk.
I had a vision of, you know, a nice wireless cloud of media sharing throughout the house. That got dashed pretty damn quick. On a WDTV Live or Patriot Box, wireless is not an option for 1080P. That is the reality.
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2 edits | The only "reality" to this conversation is that because one single person has no fucking clue what they're doing when deploying a wireless network they assume everyone is equally as unskilled. Quite frankly, this is starting to get stupid.
This is what wireless is capable of in so-so conditions but with decent hardware - this is far from my most optimal performance. 5GHz band, 40MHz channels, 2x2 antenna config, router configured for Greenfield located at the other end of the house. The above image is really nothing fancy, as I pull 15-17 when there's less traffic on the network.
12MB/s is identical to the performance of a 100Mbit/s Ethernet port like what is included on the WDTV Live or any other off-the-shelf media player, and the same speed that these devices will be using to pull that high bitrate 1080p video you are droning on about.
Therefore, I can just as easily stream those 10GB 1080p files over wireless, and anyone who claims otherwise is full of shit. Furthermore, anyone who can't do so simply isn't deploying their wireless networks correctly, either by lack of skill or understanding. Stop spreading unsubstantiated FUD.
And no, the processor in those media boxes doesn't matter any more for wireless as it does for wired as far as being capable of "pushing" things or anything of the sort. The processors that handle network connectivity are, you know, network processors like the Atheros, Broadcom or RALink processor inside the dongle you connect to the player.
Simply put, wireless is fine. Intel even allows real-time 1080p to be streamed over wireless as part of their new Wireless Display specification. If it's good enough to do that, streaming a high-def movie at any bitrate is going to be a walk in the park. | | |
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