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4.5
I moved into a new home where I wanted to stream movies to my TV; one upstairs, one downstairs. My modem and wireless router is in my "office", which means the signal has to go through at least two walls for each location. I haven't had the best luck with wireless in the past, especially when going through walls, so I tried an ethernet over powerline solution. That didn't work so well. The TVs were constantly dropping the network. Tried other devices (such as a Sony Blue-Ray player) and those didn't any better. So it wasn't the TVs.The only other solutions were ethernet over coax, running ethernet cables through the walls, or going wireless. I figured ethernet over coax could have the same issues as ethernet over power lines, so I opted for wireless (bonus points, it was cheaper).The setup involved was as follows:1) Plugged up the LAN adapters to the TVs.2) Disabled the wireless access control list on my router.3) Copied down the router security pass phrase.4) Went into network settings on each TV and set them to use a wireless connection.5) Entered the pass phrase.6) Added the TVs to the list of permitted devices.7) Re-enabled my device access list.Voila. Secure, functioning TV. No wires. No drilling. I was kind of surprised it worked as well as it did. I watched TV off and on all weekend, and I had zero issues. Netflix worked flawless.I will say from past experience that going wireless may not work for everyone. If you are in an apartment or condo with lots of wireless access points you may get interference from those devices. I cannot see any other networks from within my house. I am a Netgear N900 Dual-Band Gigabit router, for reference.
