Network Stuff...
I had this problem with my network... it started when I got the wireless card for the dell laptop my family has. I have a mostly 802.11n network with only one exception... the wifi printer\scanner is a 802.11g device. The 802.11n part can run at 270Mbps. But only when I have the wireless channel set to "auto" so that it can pick the best channel\s and get full speed. Well the laptop was having a hard time connecting to the router with the setting like that so for the longest time I had it just set to channel 11 which seemed to work but provided half the speed or actually much lower.
When I hooked up the AppleTV to the router via wifi I noticed its connection was abnormally slow compared to say... my Mac which is connected wired. This is no good since we are to be doing a lot of streaming to the former. I decided to go ahead and give putting the wireless channel back to "auto" and see what happens. One thing that I predicted that turned out true was the speed went back up to 270Mbps. But something that I didn't predict was that not only would the laptop still be able to connect but it too would get 270Mbps. It before had always gotten ~20Mbps.
Some people who are accustomed to 802.11g may think that 270Mbps or above is overkill but it really did make a difference for streaming.. especially HD videos such as the ones at Apple's trailers site. Sure the bottleneck is still the WAN but at least the LAN is up to speed for streaming. Before it took at least 30 minutes to load an HD trailer and afterwards it was at least half that if not less.... in other words not an excruciating wait.
When I hooked up the AppleTV to the router via wifi I noticed its connection was abnormally slow compared to say... my Mac which is connected wired. This is no good since we are to be doing a lot of streaming to the former. I decided to go ahead and give putting the wireless channel back to "auto" and see what happens. One thing that I predicted that turned out true was the speed went back up to 270Mbps. But something that I didn't predict was that not only would the laptop still be able to connect but it too would get 270Mbps. It before had always gotten ~20Mbps.
Some people who are accustomed to 802.11g may think that 270Mbps or above is overkill but it really did make a difference for streaming.. especially HD videos such as the ones at Apple's trailers site. Sure the bottleneck is still the WAN but at least the LAN is up to speed for streaming. Before it took at least 30 minutes to load an HD trailer and afterwards it was at least half that if not less.... in other words not an excruciating wait.