Is the Wifi useless?

[moose09876]

Patriot wireless adapter, full bars. Detected network speed on the PBO ranges from 13MB/s to 6MB/s. 1080p? forget it. 720p is BARELY watchable. Absolutely NO lag when using wired connection. I'm using a Cisco enterprise level access point with 7dBi antennas. There should be NO problem playing 720p over wifi. PBO is running 02 firmware, just upgraded last night. Did nothing, if not made it worse. Anybody else having this problem / have a fix? It's not worth keeping the dam thing If i'm going to have to spend another $75+ on wireless N adapters and an access point.. ARGH!

[h3llphyre]

works fine with divx at DVD quality.

It's a known quantity that WirelessG doesn't work for highdef feeds. It's that way with everything.

[moose09876]

It'd be nice of them if they listed that before you bought it.....

[h3llphyre]

It'd be nice of them if they listed that before you bought it.....

802.11g is an industry standard. I'm not sure that Patriot needs to say "Wireless G isn't fast enough for all video".

[moose09876]

I can stream 720p to my laptop just fine, over G. No hiccups at all.

[RamboKid]

Is the Wifi useless?
YES, for both wifi and wired! However, if the media has low bitrate, wired lan will work, and wifi lan may work depending on how low. To playback high bitrate medias, use USB drive until the PBO network layer is overhauled. I hope this is not a SOC limitation.

FYI, large file does not imply high bitrate! For example, a 6hrs media with low biterate encoding can be large; a 1hr media with high biterate can be large too. PBO should handle the former without problem via LAN, but not the latter.

I spent half a day to dump the NAS contents to the USB drive!

[moose09876]

The highest bitrate movie I have is Eagle Eye in 1080p. 18GB. It plays just fine over the wired. If you have to put everything to a USB drive, whats the point in having the PBO?

[treker]

Moose, I can see your point about streaming. I decided not to bother with watching live streaming HD video. So, I installed a low priced hard drive in my PBO. I then stream over wired connection all the video I want to the drive and later, watch glitchfree 1080p. Yes, it takes a while over the 10/100mps network (wishing it had gigabit!). And it would take longer over b/g wifi...but then you have it on the internal drive and can watch whatever, whenever, glitchfree. My solution. May not work for everyone. But the PBO is superior to my first media player - original WDTV. Once I got the fan quieted down, it's a keeper for me... for now... until the 'near perfect' media player comes out that plays every format.

[warzouing]

I don't know if all media players shoud mention the fact that to Wirelessly Stream HD videos you will need N router and N Usb Adapter supported by their player. As almost all of them are running Linux, they should mention what adapters using what chipset are supported. I have used 3 wireless media players so far to stream from my PC (Mediagate 450HD, WD HD TV, Patriot) and besides the Mediagate that accept only G (thus no DVD nor HD stream, only standard DIVX/XVID/MP4) the other 2 cope quite well with HD stream from a N network.

[moose09876]

Problem is, that I have 6TB of HD movies. Can't really store that on the internal drive. LOL!