http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/ Engadget HD Comments for HDTV over WiFi: tips and tricks http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 11:40AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/a bit, and I'm wondering if anyone has experience
with the Netgear RangeMax suite of wireless products.
It purports to increase speed as well as provide
very fast speeds at longer (+50') distances.

What I've heard is that it is very difficult to
stream full HD content over a wireless network,
and that a wired network works much better. Your
post seems to support this. Unfortunately, I cannot
run a wire up to my office where the wap/net
connection is, so I am stuck with wireless.

Any thoughts? Thanks --J]]>Dec 15th 2005 11:43AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Save yourself a headace and run a wire.

The interesting thing is that 10/100 Ethernet only uses half of the pairs in a CAT5 cable so that leaves the other half for other things. Some use them to run power to their wap so it doesn't need to be near a plug. I use my extra pair to relay IR signals to my closet where my AV equipment is located.]]>Dec 15th 2005 11:57AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Anybody care to comment?]]>Dec 15th 2005 12:32PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 12:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Anybody care to comment?]]>Dec 15th 2005 4:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 1:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Wireless = junk for things like this, and the review pretty much bears that out. Anything that's bandwidth and timely-delivery intensive is best left to wired connections.]]>Dec 15th 2005 1:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Truth be told, when it comes down to it I am going to go for wired too. I have wireless on my current xbox, but I think for full HD I'd be pushing it, as my computer and TV are on different sides of the house.]]>Dec 15th 2005 1:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 2:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
I was doing some research on this subject a whilea go about how to get HDTV streaming around the house and found this. I thought it was cool.

http://mocalliance.org/en/index.asp

What do you guys think? I mean... My house already has the cables so no need for Ethernet going all over the place. And no wifi problems.

Just my $0.02]]>Dec 15th 2005 4:58PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 2:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 2:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 2:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 3:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 4:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/ Couple of things that might help. I have one hard drive for live TV or DVR only. Formatted in blocks of 64k. Which make fewer packages for the router to handle. Also, there is a new 85mbps wall plugged Ethernet bridge that I’ll be trying soon. http://www.netgear.com/products/details/XE104.php
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I would like to hear of someone's experience with an 802.11a connection. I just picked up a Netgear dual band AP/router that does 802.11g/a from Fry's Electronics for around $40 on sale, with the idea in mind that when I get an Xbox 360 and wireless adapter that I would already be set up for 802.11a. What was also attractive about the Netgear AP is that you can run both radios simultaneously becaause they are in different bands and you can dedicate the "a" radio to the XB360 and leave all your other wireless clients on the "g" radio. This would work fine for me because I have no wireless a adapters on or in any of my computers. I did however have problems with the Netgear, on wired lan, which would slowly reduce the bandwidth at which a very large (150MB) file would come in. It would begin at 160KBps or 1280Kbps or 1.25Mbps, which is my DSL's max downstream rate, and would decrease and eventually settle at 40KB. Anyone experienced this? So I plan on taking it back for a replacement and hope it was a hardware defect. Netgear's phone support seemed baffled. As soon as I switch back to my old router the speed shot back up.]]>Dec 15th 2005 7:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/Dec 15th 2005 9:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Regarding speeding-boosting technologies (MIMO, Super-G, etc.) - none of these are industry standards (i.e. certified by the WiFi Alliance), so implementations vary from wireless silicon vendor to wireless silicon vendor, meaning that unless you have matched hardware at both ends, you often won’t get any speed boost at all.]]>Dec 15th 2005 9:50PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/15/hdtv-over-wifi-general-impressions/
Bob: Most people measure speed, or more appropriately throughput, in terms of Mbps (bits). MB (bytes) are typically used to measure the size of a file for storage purposes, not transmission.]]>Dec 15th 2005 10:18PM