The WiFi television thread got me thinking about something I learned over the holidays with my own setup. I had been having quite a few issues with my non-wired Roku boxes both caching and crashing, especially when streaming local media. I read a lot of comments online indicating that Roku boxes really need to be hardwired for consistent, stable streaming performance and assumed that they simply did not work well over WiFi. I started looking at Ethernet over coax as a possible solution.
Since switching to Comcast, I had been having issues with my WiFi dropping devices and not being able to reconnect without rebooting the gateway box. These issues just kept getting worse over time until I got fed up and decided to buy my own equipment. I have a lot of devices and wanted to invest in the best possible router. I looked at 801.11ac devices, but quickly ruled them out. I don't have any ac devices and all of the ac routers had compromised 801.11n performance. I ended up settling on a well-reviewed ASUS N900 router.
Here is where it gets interesting. The Roku problem pre-dated the Comcast gateway issues and I did not expect the new router to solve that particular issue, but it did. I have not had any issues with wireless streaming to any device since I invested in a higher-end high speed router. I've had multiple HD streams going over my network simultaneously in combination with other traffic and have not had so much as a hiccup. It looks like solid, reliable 1080p streaming over WiFi is completely doable if you invest in the right router.
Since switching to Comcast, I had been having issues with my WiFi dropping devices and not being able to reconnect without rebooting the gateway box. These issues just kept getting worse over time until I got fed up and decided to buy my own equipment. I have a lot of devices and wanted to invest in the best possible router. I looked at 801.11ac devices, but quickly ruled them out. I don't have any ac devices and all of the ac routers had compromised 801.11n performance. I ended up settling on a well-reviewed ASUS N900 router.
Here is where it gets interesting. The Roku problem pre-dated the Comcast gateway issues and I did not expect the new router to solve that particular issue, but it did. I have not had any issues with wireless streaming to any device since I invested in a higher-end high speed router. I've had multiple HD streams going over my network simultaneously in combination with other traffic and have not had so much as a hiccup. It looks like solid, reliable 1080p streaming over WiFi is completely doable if you invest in the right router.
