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need for speed - streaming HD vod

dryasanne

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Sorry for that title....

I rent a lot of movie from various streaming services.

Broadband plans are insane expensive where I live, all I can afford is a 70 mbps down / 10 up.

So. My bluray player sony bdp 5100 is used for these vod, and I do need 7 mbps at least to get HD. Usually i get 9, but often the speed drops to 5.

My setup: Asus n66u ---> 20 /twenty /meters/ cat 5 cable ----> Zyxel GS-108 S / green high prio out --> a short 50 cm cat 6e cable --> Sony 5100.

My Q. Need for speed. I dont care if every other "gadget drops off net"
-- what counts is that my Sony bluray gets every byte available!

Any input and suggestions how to fine tune my asus router/ Zyxel switch is so very much welcome. I reckon my cables is OK. Is my up speed of 10 mbps a tad slow??
 
So you are using the wired ports on the RT-N66U? Looks like everything should be running gigabit speeds. Even if they were only running 100Mbit due to cabling you'd be ok.

Are you sure you disabled the wifi in the Sony unit and you are using the wired connection?

Can you get a good stream to a PC connected to the RT-n66u via wire?

What does a speed test result look like?
 
Wired ports - yes
Wifi disabled - yes

Speed. Vudu recomends hdx, stating I have a speed in 8.5 on their speedtest.
Amazon approx 4. Full hd and 5.1 surround


Give me a sec, so shall I try to get speedtest on my mac, need to wire it first. I got 68 /9 on wifi today.
 

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