You guys who are streaming 1080p over 802.11g are doing so at very low bit rates. There's nothing magical about that. A 1080p video file at 5mbps is going to stream exactly the same as a 720p file at 5mbps; neither the router nor the media streamer should know the difference or care.
The problem is when you start talking full-res high quality 1080p movies on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD discs, then you're up around the 30-40mbps range. Standard 802.11g doesn't even come close to being able to reliably stream that. Even 1080i HDTV files (which is what a lot of people would use something like this to stream) top out at 19mbps - more than 802.11g can practically handle. Remember, we're not talking theoretical maximums here, we're talking real-world performance. It's a rare g adapter indeed that will consistently hit 19mbps, much less sustain that rate for an hour or two without fail *and* leave overhead for network hiccups or anyone else who wants to use the network for web browsing or whatever.
The average *maximum* throughput for 802.11g adapters is around 20-25mbps. You can look that up. That's under ideal conditions in bursts, not sustained over the length of a video file, and not in the situations that most people's networks exist in (ie. most people do not keep their wireless adapters a foot away from their router out in the woods away from all other interference).
You're gonna need 802.11n to do "real" 1080i and 1080p, and by that I mean the content industry standards (which are the highest quality after all). Or you can just use ethernet.
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You guys who are streaming 1080p over 802.11g are doing so at very low bit rates. There's nothing magical about that. A 1080p video file at 5mbps is going to stream exactly the same as a 720p file at 5mbps; neither the router nor the media streamer should know the difference or care.
The problem is when you start talking full-res high quality 1080p movies on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD discs, then you're up around the 30-40mbps range. Standard 802.11g doesn't even come close to being able to reliably stream that. Even 1080i HDTV files (which is what a lot of people would use something like this to stream) top out at 19mbps - more than 802.11g can practically handle. Remember, we're not talking theoretical maximums here, we're talking real-world performance. It's a rare g adapter indeed that will consistently hit 19mbps, much less sustain that rate for an hour or two without fail *and* leave overhead for network hiccups or anyone else who wants to use the network for web browsing or whatever.
The average *maximum* throughput for 802.11g adapters is around 20-25mbps. You can look that up. That's under ideal conditions in bursts, not sustained over the length of a video file, and not in the situations that most people's networks exist in (ie. most people do not keep their wireless adapters a foot away from their router out in the woods away from all other interference).
You're gonna need 802.11n to do "real" 1080i and 1080p, and by that I mean the content industry standards (which are the highest quality after all). Or you can just use ethernet.