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What? A media-hub with NO wired ethernet? How am I supposed to take that seriously? I don't care about what people saying about wifi having gotten "better". By
by josteink 12y ago
What? A media-hub with NO wired ethernet? How am I supposed to take that seriously?
I don't care about what people saying about wifi having gotten "better". By every single measurable criteria, it is slower, is less reliable, has lower capacity and higher latency than wired gigabit ethernet and I doubt that will change anytime soon.
I demand wired ethernet on my devices, and I know a bunch of other who do too.
- teh_klev 12y agoI'm totally with you on that. Where I live the channel space is packed out with neighbouring WiFi. Even within line of sight and only 10 or so feet away I barely get more than 7-10Mbs on my Netgear N600 dual band device.
- taeric 12y agoYou and the bunch of other folks you know, sadly, aren't really much of a blip on the market for this. There is probably a bigger market that wishes this thing could hook up wirelessly to the tv.
- josteink 12y ago> There is probably a bigger market that wishes this thing could hook up wirelessly to the tv. Sure. We can all wish. Back in the real world, this is the group of buyers who buys stuff like this, hook it up in a wifi-crowded area and then complain when things don't work properly. Which is absolutely fair enough, because they're not technicians and not everyone should have to be capable of diagnosing network issues. So why not just give these "commoners" something reliable in the first place?
- thedangler 12y agoI didn't even realize that it didn't have a wired hook up. This is disappointing. I have a chromcast and it is laggy sometimes, and will simply just stop working. Hopefully the wireless card in the player is better than the chromcast.