Buggy DLNA or poor Wi-Fi
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:50 pm
I've upgraded from a C series to the ES6300 and 'am having real issues streaming media from my laptop to the TV.
The C series worked flawlessly and never gave me any problems. The E series is so bad that I've literately given up trying to stream and dump to USB instead. Every 5 to 10 minutes it stops and tells me my laptop has disconnected (it hasn't).
I assumed it was a weak Wi-Fi single due to the built in aerial compared to the plug in dongle I used on the older model. The thing is however that the Wi-Fi signal strength always shows 3 or 4 bars on the TV and BBC iPlayer works fine, very rarely stopping to buffer as it would if the connection was poor or dropping.
This makes me think that it might actually be a poor DLNA implementation in the current firmware causing the instability.
Has anyone else noticed such an issue?
The C series worked flawlessly and never gave me any problems. The E series is so bad that I've literately given up trying to stream and dump to USB instead. Every 5 to 10 minutes it stops and tells me my laptop has disconnected (it hasn't).
I assumed it was a weak Wi-Fi single due to the built in aerial compared to the plug in dongle I used on the older model. The thing is however that the Wi-Fi signal strength always shows 3 or 4 bars on the TV and BBC iPlayer works fine, very rarely stopping to buffer as it would if the connection was poor or dropping.
This makes me think that it might actually be a poor DLNA implementation in the current firmware causing the instability.
Has anyone else noticed such an issue?