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1080i streaming is choppy over DMA2100 via 802.11n

Ryland

Ryland

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I am trying to stream 1080i video from my PC to my media extender that is about 10 feet away via an 802.11n router running at 5Ghz. It is a Trendnet TEW-672GR which is made for streaming HD content yet when I goto watch it on my tv it is choppy with pixalations. Does anybody have any ideas as to what else I can try? Are there settings Im missing?
 
My phones are in the 5Ghz range, should I drop the router down to 2.4Ghz and see if that changes anything? My last n router was 2.4 only and I saw the same choppiness with it.
 
oh hell, if your phones are 5 Ghz they are most likely spread spectrum and step over the entire range. 5 Ghz is mostly VERY clean from interference and the 2.4 is pretty dang crowded. You could try using the upper UNI band (highest channels) with 5 Ghz. Make sure to keep other 5 gig sources away from the access point and client, don't "point" the antennas at each other, you want them straight up and down with maybe a 5-10 degree difference between them.

You could try 2.4, but noise wise 5 Ghz is far superior. To see if it's the phones, just power them all down.
 
I may try hooking it up via an ethernet cable and see if that helps. It could be hardware on one side or another.
 
I agree with spidey. It is most likely your phone causing your woes. When you unplug it to check, be sure to take the battery out of any handsets you have.

You don't mention what model phone you have, but some of the cheaper 5Ghz models, actually work in both the 5 and 2.4Ghz range.

Running a cable would fix it too. I'm curious why you didn't go that way to begin with? A 10ft run is nothing.
 
Why are you not using hardwire for 10 feet? Have you tried scanning for other N routers? Someone else might be operating on the same channel
 
The router is sitting in my office and the tv is in the living room. Straightline between the router and extender is about 10 feet but to run a cable between them without it stretching across a hallway I would have to go through the floor into the basement. It is much simpler if I can get this to work wirelessly.
 
According to a post on the linksys forums the extender has issues playing back 1080i content from mpegs no matter how it gets over to the extender. Crap.
 
Originally posted by: Ryland
According to a post on the linksys forums the extender has issues playing back 1080i content from mpegs no matter how it gets over to the extender. Crap.
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So it's not the transmission, it's the playback hardware 🙂
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Ryland
According to a post on the linksys forums the extender has issues playing back 1080i content from mpegs no matter how it gets over to the extender. Crap.
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So it's not the transmission, it's the playback hardware 🙂
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Thats what it sounds like. I am going to try to stream the video onto my laptop via the same wireless router as my extender uses and see if it plays fine or is choppy.
 
Originally posted by: Ryland
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: Ryland
According to a post on the linksys forums the extender has issues playing back 1080i content from mpegs no matter how it gets over to the extender. Crap.
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So it's not the transmission, it's the playback hardware 🙂
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Thats what it sounds like. I am going to try to stream the video onto my laptop via the same wireless router as my extender uses and see if it plays fine or is choppy.
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I would try hard wire to the extender first. That would test if the wireless is to blame.
 
A friend of mine is bringing me a CAT6 cable tomorrow so I might as well try the wireless test tonight.
 
My laptop looked a LOT better at double the distance from the router. There were a few pauses while viewing but no breaking up of the picture. Im thinking that the router is fine and its the media extender.
 
Originally posted by: Ryland
My laptop looked a LOT better at double the distance from the router. There were a few pauses while viewing but no breaking up of the picture. Im thinking that the router is fine and its the media extender.
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can you return it?

what kind of geek are you? no network cable in the house???
 
I am going to test it with a CAT-6 cable tonight to see whether it has the same issues. Im going to assume that the infrequent one second pauses are normal figuring the amount of data that was streaming to my laptop. It should be interesting to see whether it works with the CAT-6 cable.

Why should I have network cable strewn across my floors (ok I could drill holes into the floor to run the cable through the basement) when I have 802.11n wireless that SHOULD work fine and does to a laptop that was double the distance away.

I probably won't return it since the media extender is too useful with watching Netflix Watchnow content.
 
Does anybody know of a way to quickly convert an MPEG to an AVI keeping the same resolution? I want to try this test using an AVI of the same content.
 
Originally posted by: Ryland
I am going to test it with a CAT-6 cable tonight to see whether it has the same issues. Im going to assume that the infrequent one second pauses are normal figuring the amount of data that was streaming to my laptop. It should be interesting to see whether it works with the CAT-6 cable.

Why should I have network cable strewn across my floors (ok I could drill holes into the floor to run the cable through the basement) when I have 802.11n wireless that SHOULD work fine and does to a laptop that was double the distance away.

I probably won't return it since the media extender is too useful with watching Netflix Watchnow content.
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I am questioning why you don't even have a piece of network cable you can test with. I prefer the predictable performance of a wire over a crap shoot like wireless, especially on streaming operation.

Have you tried other extenders? they may not suffer the same way.
 
Oh I have network cable sitting around my office that is long enough ot make the run but since a friend offered his CAT-6 cable vs the old crappy CAT-5 cable I have available I figured I would delay that test until today. I don't have any other extenders to test with although I could theoretically borrow an XBOX360.
 
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