[Cerowrt-devel] USB3 or HDMI ethernet? - Are wires dead?

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Luis E. Garcia <luis at bitamins.net> wrote:
> I agree with Michael - wired Ethernet is very stable  compared with
> Wireless.
> In crowed places where everyone has a WiFi router - the WiFi will experience
> random drops.

Yes, but we are all geeks here. Has J.Random User internalized that
wifi can really suck for TV usage?

> There is the inconvenient of cabling the place up - but the stability is
> very much worth it - but I've using PowerLine adapters to ease my way
> through for a couple of years now and they've always proven more reliable
> than WiFi - but they do tend to have a bandwidth cap.

I have also used powerline adaptors in the apt, while bloated and slow
(200/4mbit is what I get out of mine on the rrul test) - they only
exhibit 90ms delay under load. I wish there was a way to get into
these to get fq_codel in there, they are conceptually a lot simpler
than wifi... but I am only aware of one open source driver for one
chipset, and otherwise these little boxes are a mystery.


> Luis
> Let´s agree to disagree.
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     > But it asks a question - if basic wifi-only + compute has fallen so
>>     > low, is ethernet dead? Every TV I've seen has both ethernet and
>> wifi, I
>>     > have no idea what percentage of real users are setting up ethernet
>> vs
>>     > wifi on them. (anyone?)
>>
>> Ethernet is not dead for the reasons that wifi is bloated.
>> I know when my neighbours are watching their wifi "FIBE TV", because my
>> wifi
>> tends to die.  (I think they do 802.11g without backoff to 802.11b)
>> *My* "TV" (Wii, OUYA) are on wires for this reason.
>>
>> I consider jamming their AP... I suspect that apartment dwellers will
>> begin
>> to learn to use the wire.
>>
>>     > What I sort of hope for is that your TV could become part of the
>>     > routing infrastructure in the house - *wired* - so you could attach
>>     > more devices to it that wouldn't need their own connections...
>>
>> I agree, it would be nice: the TV is big enough to put a pretty decent
>> antenna inside, and it's in the place where the people and devices are.
>>
>> I personally didn't understand why TiVo didn't buy Skype ten years ago.
>> TiVo
>> had simultaneous MP4 encode and decode and network; all it needed was a
>> USB
>> camera on top of the TV, and it's a video phone.
>>
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