WiFi and Streaming speeds, what are the numbers needed?

[glen]

I have my Blu-ray player connected to my router with an ethernet cable.
I assume this is giving it the maximum connection speed, so that HD movies on netflix, for example, are compressed as little as possible for the connection speed.

Is this over kill?
Is a typical home wireless connection faster than the maximum HD Streaming speed?

 

[jtvang125]

If the run is short enough and can be hidden somewhat I'd always prefer a wired connection over wireless. Less chance of interference and dropped connections.

 

[smitbret]

I have my Blu-ray player connected to my router with an ethernet cable.
I assume this is giving it the maximum connection speed, so that HD movies on netflix, for example, are compressed as little as possible for the connection speed.

Is this over kill?
Is a typical home wireless connection faster than the maximum HD Streaming speed?

Yes.

I have a 50mb/s connection with my cable company that would max out a Wireless G connection, but a good wireless N connection would leave the bottleneck on the ISP end. I have regularly streamed uncompressed BR rips on my 5Ghz Wireless N connection.

 

[mshan]

Wireless connections always seem to stutter on streaming video for me.

I ended up using powerline ethernet adapters and at least the stutter is gone (how much of rated speed you get probably depends upon how your home's electrical wiring is set up).

Standard wired ethernet like you have is probably optimal solution.

 

[jhansman]

It's not overkill if you want the fastest possible stutter-free connection. My Sony BD player is hardwired to my router and does nicely as a DLNA server. In fact, I use it more for streaming from my media server than anything else.