Quick Stick with Wifi weakness

Short for application: The stick connects wirelessly monitor (with speakers) to the local network with me. Distance between routers (Fritz box 6360) and stick is only about 2 meters. But in between there is a wall, probably made of lightweight concrete. The Fritz box is set to maximum output (under wireless there is a corresponding point) and creates local computers wirelessly up to 13 MByte / s via NFS / FTP. Before MK903V I had tested a E888, the weak Wi-Fi was unfortunately unsuitable for the described application by its very (receiving).

The MK903V leaves from the description (Quad Core, 2GB RAM, Dual Band Wifi) quite expected performance. Accordingly, I was excited, when he at last arrived from China. The packaging is used to stable, the stick acts valent (metal casing?) And accessories is extensive and fully available. Ua an IR remote control is included, but the favor I renounce my K400r. Stick plug in the HDMI port, with electricity and there you go.

At boot time and during the operation of the drive lacks any speed. Installs is thankfully only the most necessary, with one or the other would possibly want more skins and a little more comfort. Netflix can manually (!) Update (in the Play Store Netflix Search, and then click Aktuslisieren). To read, however, that there are problems in using. The installed XBMC is outdated. XBMC is now Kodi and you can remove it safely and download it from the site Kodi current Android-Installer and install Kodi. Alternatively, there are SPMC, that's probably specializes in Rockchip chipset. Advantage of XBMC / Kodi: NFS goes and most codecs are supported. For the best viewing experience you may have to choose yourself to HDMI mode in the Android settings. I got a sharp image and am very happy with Kodi.

All in all, the drive quickly and works reliably. Now the BUT: despite good reception performance (> 80%, 2.8GHz, 65MBit / s) unfortunately reached the stick meager transfer rates. From the theoretical 65MBit / s he is far away. Because of the wall, it does not help to switch to the 5 GHz band, since then the received power drops to 60% and the transfer is even slower. The router is the case just yet up to 42MBit / s (and the real rate is also likely to be among them). Why the transmission speed of / the HDMI sticks the theoretically possible limit not nearly achieved and where the bottleneck lies (Wifi, GPU, Flash, Board?): I do not know unfortunately. Of course, this limits the transfer of media. For files> 6GB (at 1,5-2h game length) a liquid running is no longer guaranteed, even when changing the cache settings. With a Gigabit network like that look different.

I find it interesting nor the system app with Asian names. Maybe someone can enlighten what this app does?

Other than that I have nothing to criticize. Perhaps future firmware updates bring something. I will also compare the stick with a Raspberry Pi 2 B + with USB wireless dongle.