An 802.11n And Powerline Mess: High Definition Video Distress
April 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm poidawg Leave a comment
For all you gamers out there, Brian’s Brain did some testing using a Xbox 360 and laptop tethered together using HomePlug AV and found some interesting results. Most notably that the HD streaming performance of the Xbox 360 can be measured using the Network Tuner application in the Windows Media Center section of the Xbox dashboard. In his tests, the HomePlug AV performance looked like this:
Just marginally acceptable for viewing HD streams. He goes on to talk about how streaming media might be affected by interference on the powerline. Unfortunately, Brian didn’t have access to MoCA devices so we did our own test using the Network Tuner on Xbox 360 and got this:
Note that this was an apples to oranges test in terms of recreating the same testing conditions, the MoCA graph shows maxed out HD performance from downstairs living room to upstairs den without the interference problems that you might see with powerline or wireless streaming. Moral of the story, read the article and do your own testing using the Network Tuner application on Xbox 360 and feel free to add your comments / findings.
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