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R8500 - Does it support 4K streaming
I just bought the new R8500. Are there any known issues with it? With 20 attached devices and two 4K television I wanted to make sure it didn't bog down like my other one.
Very high quality 4K streaming shouldn’t need more than about 40Mbps, so even over a single gigabit link there should be plenty of capacity there, I’m not sure you would see any benefit at all from an aggregated switch connection.
Some switches provide a similar facility to aggregate two ports, and in that case the throughput from that segment of the LAN to the R8500 could be improved, but I’m not sure the average home user would recognise any real difference. It would really depend on what you have connected to that other switch and what it is used for .
It would be for the home theater. So 4K streaming/downloads, music and security camera.
Very high quality 4K streaming shouldn’t need more than about 40Mbps, so even over a single gigabit link there should be plenty of capacity there, I’m not sure you would see any benefit at all from an aggregated switch connection.
Thank you for your help. I'll just disable aggregation and use them as normal ports.
There is one anoying thing that you have to know.
There's no option to set the same SSID on 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz band... So you will have to set separate SSID. I think this is a huge disadvantage, becouse, maybe the router has no band steering implemented? Becouse the Smart Connect feature, just works between 5Ghz Bands, but what about device that support 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz? It should provide band steering between bands using the same SSID, as this will reduce congestion on 2,4Ghz and force all 5Ghz enable clients to use this band.
I had also both setups in the past, one with different SSID and one with the same, and the same SSID is much way better, also as the people that does not have IT knowledge, they choose a band aleatory, and if they choose the 2,4Ghz band with a 5Ghz capable devide, they're congesting the band with no reason. With just one SSID, there's no option for wrong decission.
Is there a reason for that? All the other manufacturer routers with the same Broadcom chip, has band steering, so I think there should be no incompatibility issues.
Is there any option to set the same SSID?
Maybe Smart connect could work with all the three bands, instead of just the 5Ghz bands.
Thank you.
Regards.
