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Is there an easier way to hook up my blu-ray for netflix?

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Tullphan

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It has an ethernet port in the back, but my wireless router & cable modem are in a totally different room & I don't really want to run a network cable 50' or more.
Is there an easier option?
Thanks.
 
Or a new player with built in 802.11n wireless.

You can get a wireless "router" and turn it into a workgroup bridge. That would plug into your wired power on the player and the connect wirelessly to your other router.
 
kevnich2 said:
You can also do a moca bridge uses your coax cable. How much do you want to spend? Two adapters usually run around $160 or so but they work alot better than powerline and give better bandwidth than wireless does.

http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-MCAB10...4367315&sr=8-2
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How much better? I can stream HD video up to about 80mb/s on my Wireless N 5gHz setup with a wireless bridge. I was reading some reviews on Amazon saying that 100mb/s was really the most you could expect. Just wondering if it might be something for me to look at since my house already has the cabling in place.
 
smitbret said:
How much better? I can stream HD video up to about 80mb/s on my Wireless N 5gHz setup with a wireless bridge. I was reading some reviews on Amazon saying that 100mb/s was really the most you could expect. Just wondering if it might be something for me to look at since my house already has the cabling in place.
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If you have cat5 network cabling in place, then yes just use that. If your doing wireless though, this does perform better than wireless. Wireless is shared, so if you have something pulling 80mb on your wireless, other devices will be affected. If you use either cat5 or moca, it takes the load off wireless for data intensive items. I have one area of my house with just a coax jack and I hooked this up, performance is around 100mb/sec and I don't have the load on my wireless.

I will take a hard wired connection over wireless any day. The only thing I use wireless for are my laptops and ipads
 
kevnich2 said:
If you have cat5 network cabling in place, then yes just use that. If your doing wireless though, this does perform better than wireless. Wireless is shared, so if you have something pulling 80mb on your wireless, other devices will be affected. If you use either cat5 or moca, it takes the load off wireless for data intensive items. I have one area of my house with just a coax jack and I hooked this up, performance is around 100mb/sec and I don't have the load on my wireless.

I will take a hard wired connection over wireless any day. The only thing I use wireless for are my laptops and ipads
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uhh Ethernet is still shared too. I if it wasn't that would be win!

But I think you mean wireless bandwidth is shared, true but this is netfix. His connection speed probably I am guessing here is 10 or lower mbps.
 
thescreensavers said:
uhh Ethernet is still shared too. I if it wasn't that would be win!

But I think you mean wireless bandwidth is shared, true but this is netfix. His connection speed probably I am guessing here is 10 or lower mbps.
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Ethernet isn't shared anymore with the advent of switching. It is also full duplex where wireless is half. Also, wireless is just slow thanks to noise and interference. Wireless was never intended to be nor will it ever be a replacement for a wired connection.
 
spidey07 said:
Ethernet isn't shared anymore with the advent of switching. It is also full duplex where wireless is half. Also, wireless is just slow thanks to noise and interference. Wireless was never intended to be nor will it ever be a replacement for a wired connection.
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Amen to that! I'll take wired connection over wireless any day.
 
thescreensavers said:
uhh Ethernet is still shared too. I if it wasn't that would be win!

But I think you mean wireless bandwidth is shared, true but this is netfix. His connection speed probably I am guessing here is 10 or lower mbps.
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Switched ethernet is dedicated. Wireless operates like the old hubs did. If you have one wireless AP that is capable of 54mb/s and and have 4 client's connecting to it, their all battling for the same bandwidth. In switched ethernet, each port has it's own dedicated bandwidth. The poster also mentioned he was transferring wirelessly at 80mb/s - indicating a local transfer, not netflix via the internet. Also meaning that 80mb/s transfer is consuming close to 100% of the bandwidth the AP would be capable.
 
I am running a Vizio blue-ray player at home. I got the player at Costco for around $130 and it connects wirelessly into my d-link Xtreme Dir-655 wireless router. I stream fine for my Netflix without issue. The router is on the other side of my house in my office and I have no issues.
 
spidey07 said:
Or a new player with built in 802.11n wireless.

You can get a wireless "router" and turn it into a workgroup bridge. That would plug into your wired power on the player and the connect wirelessly to your other router.
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I bought a BlueRay with 11n inbuilt, but my router is only b/g, and stream HD movies without any problems. Even 11g is faster than about any internet connection speed except for the lucky few that can get FiOS.
 
spidey07 said:
Ethernet isn't shared anymore with the advent of switching. It is also full duplex where wireless is half. Also, wireless is just slow thanks to noise and interference. Wireless was never intended to be nor will it ever be a replacement for a wired connection.
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Right, with switches each device has full bandwidth, typically 100M, at its disposal. The bottleneck is the connection to your ISP, typically less than 20M, so even 11g wireless is 3x faster.
 
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