Constraints:
Track office - living room about 10 m in a straight line, two spaces on a line phase
Office Gigabit LAN:
Router: TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with DD-WRT open source firmware
NAS: Buffalo LinkStation Live with Twonky Media Server 6.0.31 (MKV Dateiunterstüzung for TV)
Modem cable Germany, 60mBit
Tried connections to the living room / TV:
- Hama MIMO WLAN Stick -> unstable compound interference on TV, too little bandwidth for HD streaming from NAS
- TP-Link TL-WR841ND with DD-WRT as a wireless Ethernet Bridge -> this router (35) does not support DD-WRT as a bridge
- Netgear WNCE2001 Wireless Ethernet Bridge -> much too little bandwidth, is already at maximum range limit (notebooks create in the living room even 5MB / sec)
- Netgear XAVB101-200GRS Powerlan (HomePlug AV 200 Mbps) -> Ok, but bandwidth with part 3 MB / sec just too slow for HD streaming large MKVs
... And finally ...
- Netgear XAVB5004-100GRS Powerlan (HomePlug AV 500Mbit) -> everything works fine, unfortunately, still very expensive ...
Readings on Windows Explorer to Notebook:
Test file: folder with two 949MB AVI together
NAS: Buffalo LinkStation
NB: Notebook Dell Gigabit LAN interface, Win 7
XAVB101-200GRS:
NAS> NB 5: 20min
NB> NAS 4: 30min
Adapter exchanged (office lounge)
NAS> NB 4: 40min
NB> NAS 2: 45min
XAVB5004-100GRS
NB> NAS 1: 45min
NAS> NB 1: 40min
Pass 2:
NAS> NB 1: 50min
NB> NAS 1: 40min
I hope it helps further, buying you directly to 500Mbit adapters, everything else is for a HD stream of money and a waste of time.
Greeting,
Bucky
