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Kickaha
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2023-03-11, 19:31

Yeah, if you have the ability to do that, it's preferable. (What, no Cat 6e? 7? My god, man... **8**?!? )

Some of the better mesh systems such as Netgear's Orbi don't use the WiFi network for shuttling data between satellites, but instead have a custom connection that is much, much faster. I mean, sure, WiFi 6 is plenty fast for almost everything, but on my several years old Orbi, Gigabit Ethernet -> satellite => satellite -> Gigabit Ethernet is much faster than Wifi.

And that's why the NAS is plugged in to the Orbi base station, and the Apple TV is plugged in to the satellite. My old Synology D415+ was never good at transcoding, so I just turned it off completely. Everything works beautifully without it, with the Ethernet-at-both-ends setup.
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