Posts tagged ‘powerline’
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.
Which Networking Technology Is Right For Your Home? : The Connection Less Traveled – Review Tom’s Hardware
Another MoCA review is in the books, this time by Tom’s Hardware and the conclusions versus Wireless and Powerline are what everyone has come to expect:
For those who can’t string Gigabit Ethernet, MoCA is clearly the only choice when high performance is needed.
Tom’s Hardware puts MoCA through a number of tests, but where MoCA really shines is in whole home network performance as seen in the chart above. When there are multiple video streams through the house, MoCA performance is almost double what Powerline and Wireless-N have to offer. That means better HD streaming from Netflix, Xbox, TiVO, VUDU, DLNA or whatever movie services happen to be watched in your home.
Read the full review here.
Home Computer Network Is Already Linked – Yahoo! Finance
Home Computer Network Is Already Linked – Yahoo! Finance.
Even Investor’s Business Daily is picking up on the growing demand for connecting the home theater to your computer network. The article mentions both Powerline and MoCA as the best wired alternatives. For connecting the home theater, coax networking makes the most sense due to the availability of coax outlets in consumers homes as well as being “far simpler than their electrical system”.
Read the article here.
Get Your Network up to Speed
The New York Times has created an article that compares Wi-Fi, Powerline and MoCA. Simply put, MoCA comes out on top, followed by Powerline, then, trailing the pack, Wi-Fi. They do specify that this is best for people who want to do some network intensive processes such as streaming videos/movies, etc.
Powerline Outage
Tom’s Guide goes into great detail into reviewing powerline products, from its start to where it is right now. Here is the gist of the review:
PowerLine AV will work to stream video—even HD video—from one source to one target when PowerLine AV enters the picture. But given its relatively meager practical throughput of between 2.3 and 10.0 MB/s (or 16.6 to 80.0 Mb/s, if you prefer megabits to megabytes per second) it isn’t on par with GbE, 802.11n, or 802.11g.
I’d be wary of using it in households where more than one HD video stream is likely to be active on the network at any given moment or where lots of traffic is routinely on the move.
When Tom’s Guide is able to test a MoCA setup, it will most likely come in right behind Gigabit Ethernet, but leagues in front of wireless and especially powerline.
via Tom’s Guide
Sling Community compares Powerline, Wireless, and MoCA; MoCA Wins!
The Slingbox Community site reviewed three types of home networking technologies to connect your Slingbox and home theater to the Internet: powerline, wireless and MoCA. The conclusion?
So how does it (MoCA) perform? Bar none, this is definitely the fastest bridge I’ve used yet. I didn’t come anywhere near the theoretical maximum throughput of 270Mbps in my installation, but I easily averaged well over 100Mbps, which puts every other solution I’ve tried to shame.
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