2012-08-25, 10:26
(2012-08-24, 21:44)unabatedshagie Wrote: Copied the file to the media center using the file manager in XBMC. The transfer speed was roughly 760 Kb/s.
Copied the file to the media center and it played fine so it would seem it's a network issue however apart from connecting the two computers together with a crossover cable I need to go through the router (BT Homehub v3)
I've no idea what to try next.
Are you still using the powerline adaptors or wifi now?
If its powerline you could have a faulty adaptor, a slow adaptor (you do have the fast 200mbps + ones don't you?), a faulty ethernet cable or just bad or incompatible house wiring.
If its wifi try the following:-
Sorry I don't have BT so don't know what settings the Homehub allows you to change, but these are the general things I had to change on my router to get full speed wireless:-
Change the security protocol to WPA2,
set the encryption to WPA-TKIP or WPA2-AES
Set the network mode to wireless N only (only do this if you are only going to connect wireless N devices to your network otherwise leave it on mixed but you may find your wifi connection slows down to the speed the slowest device is capable of)
change the speed setting to 300mbps (or on some routers the channel width to 40mhz)
change the channel from auto to a set channel (you might have to experiment to find a clear channel but for me 11 worked)
Turn off UPnP
There were probably some other settings I changed but those are the ones I remember making the most difference
I recently helped a friend move from homeplugs to wifi, he has a similar setup to you in that he wanted to stream from downstairs to high upstairs, the only thing I had to do to achieve perfect results was add a cheapish high gain wireless N usb adaptor to his upstairs pc (it was around £13 if memory serves me correctly) as the built in wifi on his pc was very weak.