RB5-Black

Updated my 360's couple of weeks late due to work and WOW

Just sparked up my 360 connected to the projector after Dl'ing Heroes ep11 in 720P.

looks great on the big screen and I'm so chuffed it now streams Xvid/divx.
Wireless and no stutter in the 10 mins I watched.

File size was 700meg for the 40min episode.

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

What speed is your wireless mate? mine can't cope at 108Mbps

chrisowe

I usually watch the 5gb mpeg2 version, I might see how this compares.

RB5-Black

that was over a 54G netgear router , no problems streaming it.

PeteBrant

Your wireless router to you xbox wont be 108Mbps


It will be more like 20, if you're lucky. If you are going through a few walls it may drop down to 10, maybe less.

If you are using a channel other than 1,6 or 11 then it maybe even less, and if you have neighbours with networks it may be less again.

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Hmmm it's a modern house so the walls are like pieces of paper and the floors are stiff cardboard.
Might see what channel it's set on but I'm pretty sure I haven't changed it from the default 6.

RB5-Black

I just let the episode run right through and not a single stutter due to buffering

I'm the same as you in that I have a new-ish house with paper thin walls. My router to xbox is around 10m with one thin wall in the way.

Iain Young

No problem streaming here either. What strength wireless signal are you getting to the 360?

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

I'd have to check, but direct distance is about 6m from the PC to the router (maximum strength signal) through the floor and 3m from the Router to the 360 (they're on opposite sides of the living room).

Iain Young

Hmm. What router is it? I used to have a d-link, and that was terrible for streaming, whereas the netgear I've replaced it with is superb...

streetbeats

Are you guys streaming from Media Center PCs?

Any Mac guys? What;s Connect360 like?

Currently use a Freecom 400G WLAN MediaPlayer, so not really tried to use the 360 like that.

Neanderthal

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It's the Sky BB Netgear jobbie.
Had a D-Link before that and it was pants.

My 360 either registers at 3 out of 4 or 4 of 4.
Router is on channel 6 using WPA-PSK

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

One I tried watching last night over Wifi was stuttering and almost in slow mo. I think that is a PC side issue? I watched a couple different ones and they were perfect. All pretty recent material.

Iain Young

It may depend on the compression. The higher the compression, the less likelyhood of stuttering (because the bitrate is less).

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

good point. I'll do some test later and see if that's the problem. checking the network stats it seemed to be hardly stressing it at all. I may be causing my own problems though as the PC and 360 are connect by wifi so the router is having to work with both to send and receive the signal over wifi.