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2012-01-06, 17:18
(This post was last modified: 2012-01-06, 17:40 by rdub1a4.)
I also have this problem and have a solution.
I have some 720p and 1080p mkv videos (about 4GB-8GB in size and 1.5-2 hours in vid length). These were buffering/pausing/skipping on my wifi AppleTV2 with XBMC, but not on my wired one.
I have tried connecting my atv2 to a linksys wrt54g 802.11g and to a d-link dap-2553 802.11n (5ghz). Both connections have the same issue.
Then I decided to try and bridge a wireless connection to my atv lan port instead of having the atv connect directly to the wireless...THIS WORKED GREAT.
What I did as a test was take my laptop and bridge the Wireless and Local Ethernet networks. Then I connected my laptop to the WRT54G wireless network (it doesnt have N). Then I plugged in my laptops ethernet port to the atv2 ethernet port with a crossover cable. I was able to stream all my videos without this 'buffering' issue.
So I am ordering an 802.11n bridge (probably WRT160N) and going to have my atv2 connected via bridge.
If you want to test this out before buying a dedicated bridge just use a laptop like I did.... It worked fine over 802.11g...so I am assuming 802.11n @ 5GHz would be fine too.
Also, I upgraded to 11.0b, but still had this problem until I connected via wireless->wired bridge.
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you guys with buffering problem should try the sept 16th nightly build. Some one was gracious enough to post the link to the build for me in the thread i started. I guarantee you that your buffering issue will go away. look for the link in the thread i recently started.
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dopechess Wrote:you guys with buffering problem should try the sept 16th nightly build. Some one was gracious enough to post the link to the build for me in the thread i started. I guarantee you that your buffering issue will go away. look for the link in the thread i recently started.
Enjoy 3 months worth of other bugs. The point of using beta software is to find and fix the bugs so the final version doesn't have these problems.