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Thanks - interesting results. It shows that these wireless dongles and the Pi Hardware/drivers can play BluRay video over wifi.
Obviously 3 feet isn't a very useful distance (I'd recommend a cable...)
It would be useful if you could test in the next room for example. Useful to know if it is a little worse or a lot worse.

I think it makes sense that you ~ halve your speed when the data is going through two wireless connections.
For half the time the Pi can't effectively use wifi as the laptop/router is transmitting.

I don't have a tv in the other room or a router, so it's kinda complicated to test things out.
I might just test out iperf from the other room, without playing any movies, that should give us a rough estimate of what happens with the speed.

I never thought that using wireless-wireless would halve the speed, especially not with a router like this, but nevertheless, I'm happy with the results, now just to wait and see if Openelec will update their ethernet and wireless drivers to at least match the speed of OSMC.