I have searched around and not found a very conclusive answer to this question. I have FIOS Gigabit internet service with a g1100 router. The router supports up to 1300MBs wireless 802.11ac 5ghz connection and has wired 10/100/1000 LAN ports as per the router specs.
I have a Sony 4K Blu-ray player that also connects to the internet and streams Netflix and Amazon Prime as well as other streaming services that I do not use right now. The Sony Player has 5ghz wireless 802.11ac and a Ethernet port 10/100 and sits within 5 feet of the FIOS router. I have read a lot about Wired is better but they are talking 1GB wired speed vs 802.11ac or 100Mbs wired vs 802.11N (450Mbs) . How about when the device ethernet port is only capable of fast ethernet 100MBs but the wireless is capable of 802.11ac 1000MBs?? I have several other devices with the same hardware setup and was looking to just get rid of all the wired connections at 100MBs and replace with wireless 802.11ac if there is no difference or if in fact the wireless is faster in this scenario.
Also for those that may not know this but Netflix (and probably every other streaming service) sends data packets to your device before streaming your movie and depending on the speed they detect depends on the quality of the movie they send. Poor data transfer speed they send a lower (poor) quality movie. Fast data speed they send the best 4K quality movie they have. So I want the best!!
Thanks for the comments
Donnie
I have a Sony 4K Blu-ray player that also connects to the internet and streams Netflix and Amazon Prime as well as other streaming services that I do not use right now. The Sony Player has 5ghz wireless 802.11ac and a Ethernet port 10/100 and sits within 5 feet of the FIOS router. I have read a lot about Wired is better but they are talking 1GB wired speed vs 802.11ac or 100Mbs wired vs 802.11N (450Mbs) . How about when the device ethernet port is only capable of fast ethernet 100MBs but the wireless is capable of 802.11ac 1000MBs?? I have several other devices with the same hardware setup and was looking to just get rid of all the wired connections at 100MBs and replace with wireless 802.11ac if there is no difference or if in fact the wireless is faster in this scenario.
Also for those that may not know this but Netflix (and probably every other streaming service) sends data packets to your device before streaming your movie and depending on the speed they detect depends on the quality of the movie they send. Poor data transfer speed they send a lower (poor) quality movie. Fast data speed they send the best 4K quality movie they have. So I want the best!!
Thanks for the comments
Donnie