Gigabit wired network, going wireless N. Ethernet bottleneck?

[amorphous_snake]

I have a wired gigabit wired network at my place connected to an ancient 3com wireless G router. I was thinking to upgrade to wireless N. My question is: most available wireless N routers or access points have ethernet, will this be a bottleneck in my connection, if say I want to run 1080p video stored on one of the wired computers through a wireless device (e.g. a laptop or a Raspberry Pi)?

 

[corroded]

check out the dLINK 868l wIfI ROUTER... the wired ports are Gigabit and the WiFi is AC (backward to N, G, B) Nice router... I just upgraded my aging DGL-4500 because the WiFi started getting quirky after 5 years...

 

[amorphous_snake]

Thanks, I was looking at getting a router with gigabit ports. But what I want to know is that, will it matter? I am not looking for copying data, just playing the occasional 1080p file.

 

[corroded]

it is better to have a bit of an over kill on the transfer speed than left wanting... I have a FreeNAS system in the house and stream 1080p on it via PLEX all the time to my ROKU. Works great.

 

[bill001g]

It really is going to depend what codec you are using. If you send uncompressed blueray data then it takes a lot...still well under 40m. Most other HD streams are 3-4m so they don't put any burden on wireless or even fast ethernet.

For whatever reason 802.11ac is not some huge multiple faster than 802.11n when tested in real environments. Even 802.11n comes nowhere close to the 450m that is advertised. The only place you can get these magic numbers is in some controlled lab. There is no way to even predict how well it will work in your house.

The biggest issue with streaming video over wireless is not how fast you can transmit the data it is the how much interference you have. If you get random burst of interference it will still destroy the data no matter the rate you transmit at.