Posts filed under ‘WiFi’
New MoCA Installation Videos on YouTube
New installation videos are now available on YouTube showing how to install MoCA adapters with various connected devices including Internet TVs, Bluray Players, Game Consoles, Slingbox, TiVo, etc… Stay tuned for more videos on MoCA installation, operation and features – subscribe to our MoCABlog YouTube channel today !
Report: Wi-Fi 30 percent slower than wired
Report: Wi-Fi 30 percent slower than wired | Wireless – CNET News.
Anyone who’s ever used a wired connection at work versus their corporate WiFi shouldn’t be surprised that wired is faster. What is surprising is how much slower WiFi makes your broadband- 30% in the US according to this comprehensive study which polled 14,000 users across 4 countries over 4 months. Specifically, US download speeds averaged 7.4Mbps over a wired connection compared to 5.2Mbps for a WiFi download. The significant difference was also seen in the UK (26.5% slower for WiFi), Italy (40%), and Spain (30.1%). Download the Epitiro study whitepaper here.
This should be an alarm for both consumers and their ISPs. If you’re paying $50/month for 10Mbps cable modem service, you’re really only getting 7Mbps on your WiFi devices. Those “wasted” 3Mpbs are leaking out of your home network in the form of retransmissions, lost bits, and general waste. Your ISP should be as concerned as your power company to conserve, even more so since they are getting paid a flat rate.
Moral: Save Bandwidth, Get a Wired Network! And since most homeowners don’t want to rip up their walls, installing a MoCA coax network is the next best thing to wired Ethernet (and less expensive).
3 Antennas vs 1 Coax: WiFi Still Can’t Do What MoCA Does
Three Stream N For HD Streaming: Close, But No Cigar
As the late great Howard Cosell said “I’m just telling it like it is”, and so are the guys at SmallNetBuilder as they once again stage their HD Smackdown using the latest WiFi competitor, 3 stream 11N. Identified by 3 antennas instead of the usual 2, the latest in WiFi technology has demonstrated increased throughput, but can it successfully stream 1080P HD video without interruptions? Sadly, it’s more “Agony of Defeat” as summed up by SmallNetBuilder:
It may seem hard to believe, but all the additional bandwidth provided by three-stream N still isn’t enough to ensure trouble-free 1080p wireless streaming. The best performance I could achieve still had minor, occasional problems during fact action sequences with a strong, next-room signal and the router set to spectrum-hogging Auto 20/40 MHz bandwidth mode.
So how do you hook up to your brand new Internet TV? Not with the (2 antenna) dongle that comes with the TV and it doesn’t look like powerline does the job either. What do the reviewers recommend?
So it still appears that your best bet for trouble-free 1080p network play remains 100 Mbps Ethernet, with MoCA a viable alternative if your setup allows it.
