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Connect Ultra-6 to Router via USB?
My Ultra-6 has two USB ports. My LinkSys E3000 router has a USB port. LinkSys goes on about E3000's "Media Server" and I vaguely recall something about a media server for the Ultra-6. Seems l...
Case closed....
Thanks for the quick elucidation.
FWIW, what I'm really spun up about is HD video over wifi.
Until yesterday, I was convinced that HD over 802.11n was not going to
happen and the only hope was the coming of 802.11ac.
But yesterday, a salesperson told me that I can stream HD video with
something called an N900 access point or N900 router/access point.
Their claim to fame seems to be two simultaneous 450MB channels - as
opposed to one or two 150MB channels on the average consumer router/WAP.
OTOH, my E3000 seems to be a pretty high-end device (although I may have dumbed it down by flashing Tomato on to it) and no matter how close I get my tablet to the E3000, HD video isn't happening. I can get "sort-of" with 720, although it's nothing anybody would want to watch... but 1080 is just plain hopeless.
In my ignorance, I was thinking that maybe there was a bottleneck from the NAS to the E3000.
Doesn't sound like the case... and now I'm back to trying to figure out if the N900 contention is BS.... and, if not, if N600 would work too (there are several N600 WAPs out there at attractive prices... whereas it looks like quite a bit more money and buying a full-on router to get N900).
Thanks for the quick elucidation.
FWIW, what I'm really spun up about is HD video over wifi.
Until yesterday, I was convinced that HD over 802.11n was not going to
happen and the only hope was the coming of 802.11ac.
But yesterday, a salesperson told me that I can stream HD video with
something called an N900 access point or N900 router/access point.
Their claim to fame seems to be two simultaneous 450MB channels - as
opposed to one or two 150MB channels on the average consumer router/WAP.
OTOH, my E3000 seems to be a pretty high-end device (although I may have dumbed it down by flashing Tomato on to it) and no matter how close I get my tablet to the E3000, HD video isn't happening. I can get "sort-of" with 720, although it's nothing anybody would want to watch... but 1080 is just plain hopeless.
In my ignorance, I was thinking that maybe there was a bottleneck from the NAS to the E3000.
Doesn't sound like the case... and now I'm back to trying to figure out if the N900 contention is BS.... and, if not, if N600 would work too (there are several N600 WAPs out there at attractive prices... whereas it looks like quite a bit more money and buying a full-on router to get N900).
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