Any Benefit to Airport Extreme vs. Other Routers When Connecting to Apple TV?
I have Time Warner Cable and currently I have a Motorola SURFboard SB6141 modem going to an old Airport Extreme wifi router to get to my Apple TV.
I am considering the following options:
Upgrade to a Motorola SURFboard SBG6580 modem with Wifi
Stay with my current modem and Airport Extreme
Is there any reason why Airport Extreme wifi would be better at connecting to an Apple TV, than a Motorola modem with built-in wifi?
Thanks in advance to all for any info.
Personally I would stick with what you have.
For iTunes store purchases, movies max out at requiring 8 Mbps for 1080p so provided the current wifi provides that I doubt an upgrade would help. Does the extreme provide 802.11n?
If wifi is problematic in your house due to interference, thick walls, multiple floors etc a new router may or may not help, but the solution I adopted several years ago which I think is pretty great is using mains powerline network adapters which basically convert electrical sockets into ethernet sockets. You stick one into a socket near your router and connect a short ethernet cable then the others (1 or many) go in sockets near the devices which will use an ethernet connection and again connect via ethernet cables. Provided you don't have awful wiring or very complex wiring this usually works well.
I use Devolo (200 and 500) adapters, but Belkin,Netgear and many others make them too.
http://www.devolo.co.uk/consumer/dlan-mains-supply-network-via-powerline.html?l= en
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In this example the device I am trying to block is 5c:59:48:ba:28:d2.
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Thanks.The Netgear wireless server has control over what what devices are allowed to connect.
Unless you tell the Netgear what devices you want to allow to connect, it will allow any wireless device to connect as long as it knows the wireless network password.
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There are no smarts in this setup.. not even DLNA. So the TV would have to be an extremely smart one to read raw files on a network drive.. none do that I know of.
A solution is WD live TV.. it can read files from just about any file source on network and play them to the TV.
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