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#2 Being as nice as I can here, but... lol, wut? We're not talking streaming from your own home network, but using the streaming apps they include. Wireless can easily stream any 720p content, which is what most HD content is at best -- and even then, compressed to hell and back. You'd be lucky to get a 1Mbit/s bitrate. Internet connection would be the bottleneck there, not LAN. If you were streaming within your own network, then maybe latency would be an issue with wireless, especially with older streamers. And if you're trying to stream 1080p local content on a physical set-top box over wireless, well... good frickin' luck.
Ethernet by cable. Not wireless.
Wireless is too slow to stream anything anyway.
Be aware that this can only stream a few apps. Amazon Instant is not available for streaming. The apps shown on the box are the only ones available.
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Being as nice as I can here, but... lol, wut?
We're not talking streaming from your own home network, but using the streaming apps they include. Wireless can easily stream any 720p content, which is what most HD content is at best -- and even then, compressed to hell and back. You'd be lucky to get a 1Mbit/s bitrate. Internet connection would be the bottleneck there, not LAN. If you were streaming within your own network, then maybe latency would be an issue with wireless, especially with older streamers. And if you're trying to stream 1080p local content on a physical set-top box over wireless, well... good frickin' luck.