Not to beat a dead horse, but cheap gigabit chipsets are absolute crap. The same holds true for the routers/switches that serve them... or the PCI bus on the receiving end. There's a _lot_ spots where a bottleneck could occur.
In real world situations, I have seen a 2-3x speed increase when serving files from a USB 2.0 SATA drive over gigabit into memory (so I could exclude the write speeds on the receiving device)... not a huge difference, but helpful nonetheless.
Regardless, my point is there's a lot more to it than just having a cheap gigabit chip in there instead. And to be perfectly honest, 10/100 serves 1080p content fine to any extender in my house.
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Not to beat a dead horse, but cheap gigabit chipsets are absolute crap. The same holds true for the routers/switches that serve them... or the PCI bus on the receiving end. There's a _lot_ spots where a bottleneck could occur.
In real world situations, I have seen a 2-3x speed increase when serving files from a USB 2.0 SATA drive over gigabit into memory (so I could exclude the write speeds on the receiving device)... not a huge difference, but helpful nonetheless.
Regardless, my point is there's a lot more to it than just having a cheap gigabit chip in there instead. And to be perfectly honest, 10/100 serves 1080p content fine to any extender in my house.