I’ll not link the article this came from, because I don’t want to give traffic to an idiot.
“. . .works best with a fast Internet connection: I’d recommend Wireless-N or Gigabit Ethernet. When I tested this feature on my office PCs (connected to a 10/100 Ethernet network), there were a lot of timeouts, and some video clips played, but with scrambled video on my widescreen display.”
*sigh* That’s where I stopped reading the article and closed the tab. The moron who wrote the article confused LAN speeds with WAN speeds. A LAN with nominal 100mbit speeds and managed routing is easily more than twice as fast as any WAN/Internet connection available to all but the extreme upscale connection available anywhere. Sure, there actually are a very, very few places where folks who can pay the tab can get a gigabit Internet connection, but availability of those connections are very, very few. Average broadband download speeds for the US are somewhere in the 20mbs range, which is about 1/5 of the nominal 100mbs LAN speed the guy moans about in his stupid comment.
Nope. Connection “speeds” have little to do with streaming video issues anywhere past about 5mbs download connection speeds. Many other factors–some of them between the user and the keyboard–are more important. And LAN speeds are NOT Internet connection speeds.
I filed this article under “Too Dumb to Read” and moved on.