2020-10-03, 08:32
(2020-10-02, 16:38)RockerC Wrote:(2020-10-02, 15:03)wrxtasy Wrote:OK, I concede on all those other points, but that does not answer the specific question about why 1Gbps is better than 100Mbps for a Kodi media player dongle-type device?(2020-10-02, 12:23)RockerC Wrote: Why is 1Gbps Ethernet needed on a device type like this?
Isn't 100Mbps is fast enough to stream video services like Netflix and cloud gaming services like Stadia,
A bunch of things you are mentioning have nothing at all to do with Kodi.
Please explain why 1Gbps Ethernet is in fact needed in an Android TV device for Kodi? Put it this way, if everything else is equal on two Android TV devices, does one having 1Gbps Ethernet really make it a better Android TV device for Kodi?
Simply it's a 4K HDR device so naturally users are going to ask the question, "Can I stream 4K HDR REMUXs with this Dongle ?"
And to do that - Reliably - you need a hardwired Gigabit Ethernet adapter. WiFi simply has too many variables for - reliable - high bitrate 4K HDR home network streaming.
To complicate matters I'm also reading at the moment even with an LAN/Hub/USB adapter this Google TV Dongle has problems with NTFS formatted USB storage.
So FAT32 only works and that is limited to 4GB file sizes.
A bunch of Android TV devices also had similar problems in the early days of the Android TV Oreo v8.0 or Pie v9.0 OS upgrade cycle.
