http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/ Engadget Comments for Roku HD-XR Player and Roku SD Player announced (with hands-on!) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Nov 15th 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
Do yourself a favor and get an Xbox, you can share the same Xbox live and Netflix account with a friend. ]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
My wife and I love the fact that they can't search through all the content on Netflix and choose just anything. We set of the instant que to have just about every movie in the children's and family section and some content from other sections that we deem appropriate and we are safe knowing they can use it all they want without us needing to worry. In the living room we have a netflix enabled BD player and a WD TV Live that can stream from the computer.

The thing that makes the Roku a better choice than the 360 though is the fact that you can use Amazon's VOD service. We have stopped buying any physical media if we can help it and purchase all our content through VOD now.]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
do you know why???

BECAUSE ITS STREAMING FROM THE INTERNET!!! and the connection from the internet is SLOWER then your G wireless connection.

this is why N has no effect on INTERNET content.

N will improve throughput of your local LAN, increase range of your local LAN, but until your internet connection AND the connection to the other end is FASTER then your wireless G, N wont make much of a difference.

So everyone who is complaining about N not being in the iPhone, or JUST showing up on X360 stop and smell the coffee.]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
Also the improved range and interference handling on the 802.11n allows you to set up that Roku box further away than 802.11g.]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
David S FTW]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Nov 23rd 2009 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
When I tried just joining the network with the G models it was causing issues with that access point slowing to G speed across the board on everything connected to it, random drops from the network that required the bridge to be reset, and other problems.

With the Ethernet connected and only the three bridge units talking to the router with N wireless I have never experienced any network glitches and have never had to reset the network in over a year which is pretty amazing after our old G network setup needed to be reset periodically. ]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
I know it seems excessive but the house is a very big, overly built century home. Wireless, even the Extreme N router, does not make it up stairs very well on its own. The bridges are at both ends of the house, first and second floor to even get whole house coverage.

We have a bunch of gadgets that connect using wireless, three smart phones, three hand held game units, a PMP, a laptop, a photo frame that displays the local weather, but none of those cause any problems on the network. Only the Roku units when they are playing videos and on wireless causes the problem. probably not a problem for someone with one unit, but with two or all three streaming at the same time it was crashing the network. ]]>Oct 27th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 27th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
Local media is the key. Roku, Vudu, and every other box has promised this 'in the future'.

I'm happy with my WDTV Live and, just like on my PS3, I have netflix and hulu via PlayOn. Soon I will see how well implemented Netflix is 'natively' on the PS3 with the free disc.
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Even if ISP's started providing bandwidth in excess of 54Mbps, regularly streaming media from the internet that required those speeds would exceed the bandwidth caps ISP's are slapping on within days.]]>Oct 28th 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
Similarly, I can't count the number of times that you've noted different "output" ports on the billions of undistinguishable LCD monitor "reviews" you post. Multiple times! On a technology blog!

I don't know if it's ignorance or simply sloppy writing and proofing. But it shows a profound lack of respect for your readers. I thought that I'd find more professionalism when I switched from Gizmodo; but I guess the bar's pretty low industry-wide.]]>Oct 29th 2009 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Oct 30th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/Nov 23rd 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/27/roku-hdxr-player-announced-adds-802-11n-not-much-else-with-h/
Thanks in advance!]]>Jan 23rd 2010 4:53AM