what is the best way to connect wireless Internet or wired

[SmokingElectronics]

I invite anyone who has information or comments or experience etc jump in let everyone know what you think or have found.

A very big problem and debate in the tv box world is connection, and buffering and also the many hair pulling problems it can cause that acts like bad boxes, bad software too much to list that bad networks can cause!

now we can debate about it all day long just like what gasoline is right for your car, do Toyota prius suck hell yes, food sports you name it.

but let's stick to hard facts and the posts I have been seeing on here people who I talked to etc
facts and personal experiences more than just opinions

here are some facts

Copper is super tech but scroll through and scan the general details like

• Streaming video requires 20 to 100 Mbps for each television receiver, so at best, wireless can connect video from one source at a time, for example either Internet or Blu-ray, to one TV set.
• Because of its much lower throughput, a wireless LAN will be unable to handle much of the traffic that homeowners will be wanting within the next 5 to 10 years.
• If you have any near neighbors, especially in a multiple unit dwelling, it is very possible that you will interfere with each other.
• It is possible that a device like a microwave oven or a nearby medical diathermy machine, which use the same 2.4 GHz frequency as the wireless signal, will cause interference.

 

[SmokingElectronics]

https://www.wired.com/2013/05/optimize-video-stream
https://www.howtogeek.com/217463/wi-fi-vs.-ethernet-how-much-better-is-a-wired-connection/
https://www.copper.org/applications/telecomm/consumer/wired_ethernet.html

some more information and resources to help

also people say that I have to go wireless there's no options for wires. wrong there's lots of options whether you own or rent the house or apartment or flat. but the ugly wires every where wire covers cheap nice looking paint to match the wall most come in tan or white

floor cable covers another nice good looking option to fix this. Don't worry about not knowing how to wire the cables they come in hundreds of feet and if you buy good quality it's just as good as doing your own connections

you can buy wall plates like the outlet covers some have plug and play on the back you drill a hole in the floor etc

you can cheat and run it through the heat and ac duct just make sure that you seal the hole with silicone! dril a hole in the duct drop the wire down in each room then connect to a master hub in the basement

 

[Bollocks77]

Im fully wired but I couldnt put cables inside walls. I used old heating duct which is basically hidden inside the walls and used small hole for each end to get cable to router and box. It works.

 

[SmokingElectronics]

Thanks that's the cheat that I use I used to have the router in the basement, I have a very small 3 room house so to bring it upstairs I ran the main line from the basement to the router then the router sits on the desk in the dining room I can see from the living room i have connection problems off and on so it's nice to see the lights then just a short cable to the living room box

the bedroom is currently wireless big difference in performance but it's not used once in a while for my wife's crap I wont watch

that's also where true bandwidth comes into play, i test at 24mg but it's dedicated dsl not shared broadband Internet. I have a pc hardwired, 2 tabs 2 tv boxes and I torrent off and on even though some of my posts are about problems they tend to be sources not overloaded network traffic

 

[ChrisM]

The bandwidth requirements for streaming are lower than the figure quoted, unless you're looking at 4K streams. https://droidbox.co.uk/how-to/what-speed-internet-do-you-need/ and https://droidbox.co.uk/how-to/why-your-droidbox-doesnt-need-more-than-a-25mbit-internet-connection/ has some figures and testing.

Sometimes, WiFi is faster than ethernet. Weird, but some models will transfer data faster with WiFi (especially those with 100Mbit rather than 1Gbit rated ethernet chip). Ping always likely to be higher on WiFi, but not an issue really beyond online games like FPS.

5GHz great if close enough to the modem, can be faster.
2.4GHz channels better for distance/interference.