On 8 aug 2011, at 03:36, Gregg Dinse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I just bought a mac mini and connected it to our HDTV with a HDMI cable. I > used screen sharing from my Mac Pro to control the mini. All that seemed to > work fine. > > I have a Netgear router with both 5-GHz and 2.4-GHz radios. I tried to watch > an episode of The Closer (and then a few other shows) but nothing even > started to play. Is this not possible via wireless? That seems hard to > believe. It is very easy to test by connecting a network cable between the router and the mini. If the cable configuration works, you can't rule out the wireless completely but you've nailed it to be problematic in some sense. This following is a matter of opinion, my opinion: cable compareed to wireless is 'state of the art' vs. 'low end', when it comes around performance and amount of problems in practical use. If you make the effort and install a Gbit network and connect your gear to it your reward is bandwidth, round trip times and reliabillity that in reverse order will put wireless on shame. But if you are like: 'it works 'decent'...., most of the time' and hate cables, or are lazy you could prefer wireless. I'm a performance kind of guy and after demonstrations have convinced many to take the burden of hooking in the cable in their laptop instead of using WiFi. It just gives a better experience. The drawback is the cable initself. Some think it's ugly but I couldn't care less since it is hardly visible if done right! At least you should test a cable here! // John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
