Throw out your wireless

zod

I was getting good speeds from my Wireless G network .. playing games online - always assumed a certain amount of lag was inevitable.

Then I changed my wireless for these http://cgi.ebay.ie/85Mbps-Homeplug-Ethernet-Network-Over-Mains-NEW_W0QQitemZ200067196612QQihZ010QQcategoryZ40995QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


no comparison .. playing games is better / streaming avi / using slingbox now even at the same time .. brilliant

unklerosco

Wired is always better... I only use wireless for my laptops.. everything else is on a wired network...

KTRIC

Anyone know what speed the ethernet card is in the 360 ??

Ciaran500

It would be a 10/100Mbps card (100Mbps max)

KTRIC

Ciaran500 wrote:

It would be a 10/100Mbps card (100Mbps max)

Thats what I was thinking :rolleyes:

Why the hell didn't they put a gigabyte card in it, would have made alot of sense when it comes to streaming video over a lan.

Fanboy

KTRIC wrote:

Thats what I was thinking :rolleyes:

Why the hell didn't they put a gigabyte card in it, would have made alot of sense when it comes to streaming video over a lan.

come out of it, if you're having problems streaming video over a 10/100 network....well, i dunno....but you shouldn't be!!

unklerosco

True... I've been streaming vids from me server over a 100mb network n never had a prob.. Thats streaming to a HTPC, a laptop n the 360.. mostly at the same time

Fanboy

Have u a load of cat 5 running through the walls rosco or...?

KTRIC

I'll test the 10/100 tomorrow, I could get very good results over 54mb wireless.

I just thought that the 200mb lan adapter from Devolo would be great for streaming to the 360.

Fanboy

I have to say, i've never had any problem streaming video to my 360 over 54G.

I was using TVersity to stream 1024 x 720 to it last night, watching some 24, and over the 4 episodes it never skipped once!

KTRIC

Fanboy wrote:

I have to say, i've never had any problem streaming video to my 360 over 54G.

I was using TVersity to stream 1024 x 720 to it last night, watching some 24, and over the 4 episodes it never skipped once!

I didn't have any skipping, just slightly stuttery. I found Media Center quite unresponsive using the wireless.

Fanboy

I've never used media centre...well, for a very brief time...it's a resource hog, and there are other things which do the job better, with less requirements.

bushy...

Wouldn't most wireless stuff around the house be half-duplex anyway to land you back there well in the last century.

LeperKing

I've streamed a dvd from a laptop 54g to a router then 54g to an xbox.

LK

P.S. I've always had <1ms pings to 54g router.

unklerosco

Im using cat 5...

zod

LeperKing wrote:

I've streamed a dvd from a laptop 54g to a router then 54g to an xbox.

LK

P.S. I've always had <1ms pings to 54g router.

so have I.

Was still amazed that the home plugs were so much better than wireless.

Now I can stream SKY + on the TV ( with a slingbox ) to the PC, stream a DVD/avi using xbmc ( old xbox ) from the PC to the TV AND play the xbox 360 online on a different TV at the same time with no lag.

Also wireless is bad for you*


*runs away with tinfoil over head

peckerhead

Sorry to resuscitate an old thread, but it came up in a search...

Since I don't already have any wireless gear, I'm half-thinking of trying out one of those Homeplug kits, to connect a PC & Xbox in the young lad's bedroom upstairs to our wired (BT) 1MB router downstairs. For something like Xbox Live, would it make any appreciable difference whether I got the 14MBPS instead of the 85MBPS kit? The former can be had very cheaply on eBay, and of course I'll need two of them. But I've heard a couple of people say that 14MBPS — or whatever fraction of that you actually get in practice! — isn't fast enough (and indeed that it's a bit of a struggle with standard 54MBPS wireless) ...is that the case?

Also, I presume we'd then be sharing the bandwidth? So if daughter dearest was limewiring away at +100Kb/s downstairs (that's the fastest we get in practice) and yer man went online upstairs, they'd each get about half of that?

Kanney

How bad is the lag on like pro evolution?

Stephen

Games on Xbox live would be pretty much unplayable if someone's P2Ping on your network at max speed like that.

peckerhead

I can imagine that's the case, alright. But, assuming noone else was browsing/downloading at the same time, would the ('up to') 14MBPS transmission between the two homeplug devices be fast enough? Or would I need to get 85MBPS units?