2011-02-15, 22:32
Have you guys tried hardwiring your connection just to see if its a wireless issue....
Remember that you only can pretty much only get the highest advertised speed of your wireless about 4 inches away from the wireless device... the farther away you get the slower your speed.....
I used to have these issues all the time on my Windows based XBMC... over wireless N i would get stuttering and buffering on any file over about 4-5GB...... I finally was able to wire cat5e behind my tv and now the exact same machine plugged in with GB ethernet has played everything over the network I could throw at it.... the biggest file I have is my Bluray rip of Avatar which is 40GB mkv file (i ripped it with Makemkv)
I've also done some other testing with this machine on slower speeds. I switched the interface down to 100Mb and at this setting it seems like files over 20GB will stutter ever so often. I have also confirmed this with my Asus Oplay which only has 100Mb wired ethernet.. it seems to start stuttering on files over 20GB also. With that being said I would think the AppleTV2 hardwired (100Mb) should be able to play a 20GB H.264 file over the network. I do not own one though so I cannot confirm.
I do hope to get one soon. I think the device would be much nicer in my bedroom than my roku box.
Remember that you only can pretty much only get the highest advertised speed of your wireless about 4 inches away from the wireless device... the farther away you get the slower your speed.....
I used to have these issues all the time on my Windows based XBMC... over wireless N i would get stuttering and buffering on any file over about 4-5GB...... I finally was able to wire cat5e behind my tv and now the exact same machine plugged in with GB ethernet has played everything over the network I could throw at it.... the biggest file I have is my Bluray rip of Avatar which is 40GB mkv file (i ripped it with Makemkv)
I've also done some other testing with this machine on slower speeds. I switched the interface down to 100Mb and at this setting it seems like files over 20GB will stutter ever so often. I have also confirmed this with my Asus Oplay which only has 100Mb wired ethernet.. it seems to start stuttering on files over 20GB also. With that being said I would think the AppleTV2 hardwired (100Mb) should be able to play a 20GB H.264 file over the network. I do not own one though so I cannot confirm.
I do hope to get one soon. I think the device would be much nicer in my bedroom than my roku box.