Well, 100mbit should be plenty to stream a BRD. BRD has a maximum (video + audio) bitrate of 54mbit - just over half what Fast Ethernet offers. My guess is that there isn't enough processor capacity to do the decoding and process the network traffic (which can be more intensive than you may think, and a lot of 10/100 chips lack offload capability).
It looks like you need to go to the newer WD TV Live Hub product to get GbE. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 5:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] How to stream videos on PC to TV? > > I see. Gotta get the answer To the 100 vs 1000 question, then. Thanks. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > > > yes the WD live or live plus wil play a blu ray iso. But to play a blu-ray iso I > have to be using a quick USB hard drive plugged into one of the WDs two USB > ports... not streaming from the network. BD ripped to mkv or HD recorded TS > stream is fine across the network. I have a WD live and it connects to the > LAN at 100 which may be why it can't stream a blu-ray iso across the network. > I don't know if they upgraded the plus to a 1000, if they do I will probably buy > one. > >
