2021-08-21, 01:16
(2021-08-20, 21:29)wagnerch42 Wrote: Other thing with onboard wifi performance on the RPi 3 & 4 is it's gated by the SDIO bus, most reports I have seen have it maxxed at 80Mbps regardless of conditions/connections/distance. Switching to a USB dongle and disabling on-board wifi I have been able to get up to ~260Mbps on a 5GHz 80Mhz channel (tested via iperf3). Plus a read-ahead cache on the Kodi side helps through those high bit-rate scenes.I always try to use ethernet if I can, with the current setup would mean laying the wire across the floor..lol
Without a doubt, already said, is ethernet is your best bet, if you can do it then that should be your first choice. Don't know about RPi3, but most RPi4 users can get 950+Mbps on a gigabit ethernet.
I could drop a line from above to 2nd Floor Bedroom is where everything is at. Might be a plan. For now I probably do the Hard Drive direct connect.
My next challenge would to figure out why Video format = VC-1 (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou) doesn't smoothly play from anything but the PC. Not sure if I have any other blu-rays that carry the same video format. As I just started with a few movies to test.
Steve