- Apr 30, 2007
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I'm trying to setup my cousin's house so he can stream between his two WDTV Live boxes. One box is downstairs and the other (brand new) is upstairs, both are currently connected wirelessly to his router. The box downstairs has two USB 2.0 external hard drives plugged into it, that is what stores all the content he has. I went over to his house yesterday and we tried to stream a movie from one of the hard drives attached to the downstairs box to the upstairs box and it was just constantly freezing every few seconds, not even watchable.
I was looking at the newer 500 Mbps powerline tech but I wasn't that impressed with it after reading the article link below, 500 Mbps loses throughput pretty quickly once you get some distance between adapters while the 200 Mbps tech stayed the same for the most part.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanw...eplug-av-500-adapter-roundup?showall=&start=2
So I started looking at these since they have pretty solid reviews on both Amazon/Newegg and Anandtech gave them a positive review not too long ago if I remember.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...cm_rdp_product
The only thing is I need to buy 3 units, 1 downstairs, 1 upstairs, and 1 connected to the router. And from everywhere I've searched (including eBay) these are only sold as pairs. And from what I could tell, most powerline products look like they are only sold as pairs. So I guess I'll have to buy 4 units even though I'm only going to use 3 units......ugh
So what kind of powerline adapters would you guys recommend and would they be able to stream 4-15GB 720P/1080P h264 mkv's without any problems?
I was looking at the newer 500 Mbps powerline tech but I wasn't that impressed with it after reading the article link below, 500 Mbps loses throughput pretty quickly once you get some distance between adapters while the 200 Mbps tech stayed the same for the most part.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanw...eplug-av-500-adapter-roundup?showall=&start=2
So I started looking at these since they have pretty solid reviews on both Amazon/Newegg and Anandtech gave them a positive review not too long ago if I remember.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...cm_rdp_product
The only thing is I need to buy 3 units, 1 downstairs, 1 upstairs, and 1 connected to the router. And from everywhere I've searched (including eBay) these are only sold as pairs. And from what I could tell, most powerline products look like they are only sold as pairs. So I guess I'll have to buy 4 units even though I'm only going to use 3 units......ugh
So what kind of powerline adapters would you guys recommend and would they be able to stream 4-15GB 720P/1080P h264 mkv's without any problems?