Chromecast Teardown

Re:Chromecast Teardown by mtgx on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:13AM (#6165076)

I hope they can make a Wi-fi ac one next year, or maybe even ad? That's faster (7 Gbps 60 Ghz) and should work well for this type of use case, but I guess your router has to support it, too, and I'm not sure if ad will catch on that much.

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Re:Chromecast Teardown by apendleton on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:53AM (#6167290)

I doubt this is a priority. 802.11n can happily stream 1080p video, which is the most bandwidth-intensive thing this thing can handle (it can't drive a 4k display so far as I know). A 5GHz radio, on the other hand, would be pretty great; in my neighborhood, at least, the 2.4GHz band is pretty shot.

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Re:Chromecast Teardown by moosehawk on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:52PM (#6167646)

I would also like to see this thing run on the 5 GHz band. My apartment unit has 30+ available 2.4 GHz wi-fi connections from my living room. Streaming HD video & gaming on 2.4 GHz can be quite a bit of hit-or-miss with the interference.

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