Router question

[caldera]

Clueless noob question:

I have an Xbox360 and want to watch movies from Netflix.  What kind of router do I need?  My TV is 1080p HD, if that means anything.

[Estes]

Depends on if you will be having your xbox hooked up with a cable or wireless. Mine is hooked up with a cable, but I've run it off wireless and it actually did better than I thought. Obviously wired is the better bet, if you have that option. If not, any wireless N router should be fast enough. I have a netgear NG600, which is a bit out of date today, but works great for netflix and everything.

[SectorNine50]

Depends on if you will be having your xbox hooked up with a cable or wireless. Mine is hooked up with a cable, but I've run it off wireless and it actually did better than I thought. Obviously wired is the better bet, if you have that option. If not, any wireless N router should be fast enough. I have a netgear NG600, which is a bit out of date today, but works great for netflix and everything.

Realistically, wireless N would be a waste of money for this application.

Most high-speed internet connections these days are roughly 1.5MB/s, wireless G is capable of doing roughly 5.4MB/s.

[2bighorn]

Realistically, wireless N would be a waste of money for this application.

Most high-speed internet connections these days are roughly 1.5MB/s, wireless G is capable of doing roughly 5.4MB/s.

So, you're saying I should drop my gigabit LAN and replace it with 10base2?

[SectorNine50]

So, you're saying I should drop my gigabit LAN and replace it with 10base2?

Absolutely not, not really sure how you even drew that conclusion from what I said.

If he were doing media streaming over his internal network, that would be a completely different story, since the extra bandwidth from N would be utilized.

[2bighorn]

Absolutely not, not really sure how you even drew that conclusion from what I said.

If he were doing media streaming over his internal network, that would be a completely different story, since the extra bandwidth from N would be utilized.

You realize that 54Mbs for G is just nominal peak transfer rate at ideal conditions and that actual sustained throughput (in ideal conditions) is not more than 20Mbs? And that will drop with the distance.

[SectorNine50]

You realize that 54Mbs for G is just nominal peak transfer rate at ideal conditions and that actual sustained throughput (in ideal conditions) is not more than 20Mbs? And that will drop with the distance.

Yup, I do.

20Mbps (roughly 2.0MB/s) is still greater than 15Mbps (roughly 1.5MB/s).  You shouldn't see less than 24Mbps unless you are in a location with lots of interference, or at the very edge of the wireless signal.  Even N will struggle with bandwidth at the edge of it's range.

If he wants to splurge on N, that's his prerogative.  I'm not spewing nonsense here.  I run a G network in my house that goes down two stories and have no issues with Netflix, or bandwidth in general.  Still hit 2.0MB/s download (which is max on my internet plan) and game on it without a hitch.

[2bighorn]

Must have been a while you were shopping wireless equipment. In any decent store N routers vastly outnumber G and nowadays they cost about the same.

[SectorNine50]

Must have been a while you were shopping wireless equipment. In any decent store N routers vastly outnumber G and nowadays they cost about the same.

Could be the case, technology moves fast.

Now if you had simply pointed that out instead of trying to belittle me for trying to save a guy a few bills, you could've saved us both some time.

[2bighorn]

Now if you had simply pointed that out instead of trying to belittle me for trying to save a guy a few bills, you could've saved us both some time.

Well, apologies, I wasn't trying to belittle you. I was just trying to save a guy a few bills.  

[Infidelz]

I have found Netgear to be pretty near effortless to use and of great quality. Netgear Dual Band router at 450Mbps is I would get to stream video if my old one gives out. I have a single band N router from netgear with 75mbps USB adapters. its pushing it which is why I want to expand my bandwidth. 



Infidelz.

[caldera]

Ty all for the info. 

[guncrasher]

I just got the netgear n300 have no problems watching movies on netflix using wireless on my tv.  also make sure the yellow cable is connected properly as one side is for the modem and the other for the router.  almost threw the damn thing out the window as I didnt know and couldnt connect  .


semp

[Rob52240]

Look Folks, the throughput bottleneck in your home network resides @ your modem.  Unless your wireless router is really old.

And I don't want to hear any crap about how this ISP is giving me x bandwidth because nobody utilizes the speeds their ISP advertises.  Getting to use about 10% of the bandwidth you're paying for is still the rule of thumb, unless you're running a bandwidth test.

[SectorNine50]

Look Folks, the throughput bottleneck in your home network resides @ your modem.  Unless your wireless router is really old.

And I don't want to hear any crap about how this ISP is giving me x bandwidth because nobody utilizes the speeds their ISP advertises.  Getting to use about 10% of the bandwidth you're paying for is still the rule of thumb, unless you're running a bandwidth test.

I utilize my allocated download bandwidth all the time during downloads.