ATV4 WiFi Superspeed

[cynics]

Local media with a high bitrate will easily saturate a 100mbps port.

On an AppleTV? Easily? Or did you mean "never"?

 

[oneMadRssn]

Wow you have me convinced. I'm going out to buy 200 feet of Ethernet 10/100 cable. Get a Ethernet HUB. Go up my attic. Drill some holes and hope to fish it through the walls to the first floor. Figure out how to get past the beam supports between the frames. Then I can run the cable across the floor or up against the baseboard to the entertainment system. Spend hours and hours to get this done and when finished have the 10/100 cable to ATV4. Hmmmmm maybe I can just pop the ATV4 anywhere in the house and just turn on WiFi ac and enjoy 600MB/s within minutes. I think I'll just stick to my WiFi ac for now. LOL

Yea, obviously if ethernet is not practical then wifi is great because it's the only option. For those that have an house wired for ethernet and a wifi network, ethernet is the clear preferred choice.

I was mostly responding to your assertion that Mbps speed is soooo important and that 100Mbps is somehow inadequate. Both those points are wrong. In terms of speed, 100Mbps, 600Mbps, 1000Mbps, 6000Mbps are all more than adequate. When streaming, as long as you can maintain a reliable speed over what is needed, higher speed than that doesn't mean better (unless you watch movies in faster than real-time, which would be strange). Having 600Mbps doesn't make the streams any better than 100Mbps. Like I said earlier, even 1080p blu-rays don't use more than 48Mbps natively. 100Mbps will be more than enough for the entire lifetime of the ATV4, unless you have access to source material of higher quality than uncompressed blu-ray.

Also to nitpick your units, you keep saying 600MB/s. I kind of doubt you're getting 600 MegaBytes per second (MB/s), which would mean you have a solid 4800Mbps connection far in excess of what 802.11ac can do. I'm sure you measured 600 Megabits per second (Mb/s) though, which sounds about right for a mid-range AC router and client. I know it's a minor point, but I'm an engineer by training and units matter

 

[thisismyusername]

Local streaming. Three ATV at home. Multiple concurrent users at home all accessing the Internet, local media, music media, streaming through the ATV's, iOS and Macs. That's why ATV4 is a great replacement for all your old ATV's at home. Using WiFi AC and not Ethernet.

None of that warrants anything greater than 100Mb/S on an AppleTV. You have a case for your overall network needing to support > 100Mb/S bandwidth and for whatever computer is serving your local content to support > 100Mb/S but that's not what I asked about. I asked what are you streaming to a single AppleTV device that requires more than 100Mb/S bandwidth.

Wireless may be a better option for you but to say that wireless is better than wired for the AppleTV 4 because 600 is greater than 100 is naive. If you had a properly working wired network, the wired connection would work just as well, if not better, on an AppleTV 4 than the wireless connection.

Get a Ethernet HUB.

Switch, not hub. If you're using hubs, that would at least partially explain any performance issues you're having with your wired network. And yes, I'd certainly go out and buy 200' of ethernet cable and go through the trouble of routing it through an attic than use a wireless connection.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Wow you have me convinced. I'm going out to buy 200 feet of Ethernet 10/100 cable. Get a Ethernet HUB. Go up my attic. Drill some holes and hope to fish it through the walls to the first floor. Figure out how to get past the beam supports between the frames. Then I can run the cable across the floor or up against the baseboard to the entertainment system. Spend hours and hours to get this done and when finished have the 10/100 cable to ATV4. Hmmmmm maybe I can just pop the ATV4 anywhere in the house and just turn on WiFi ac and enjoy 600MB/s within minutes. I think I'll just stick to my WiFi ac for now. LOL

You seem angry.