Fast Ethernet should be more than sufficient for streaming four 4 K video streams simultaneously. The adapter is compatible with legacy Ethernet (10BASE-TX) and Fast Ethernet (100BASE-TX) (10 and 100 MBit/s, respectively.) It will work with Gigabit Ethernet equipment, but can’t run up at those speeds. The Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast is compatible with both the first and second-generation Chromecast devices. It worked flawlessly and effortlessly for me, but I wanted to make sure that it did its job too.
It just works without requiring any configuration, though it can be hard to tell if the Ethernet Adapter is working. You simply swap out the power supply and stick an Ethernet cable in the adapter and run the cable into your router. The Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast replaces the regular power supply and provides both power and a wired network connection over the same Micro- USB connection. The 5 GHz band isn’t as crowded yet, and the second-generation Chromecast finally supports this.Īs I didn’t have much faith in the Wi-Fi experiment and I’ve a strong preference for wiring up my devices anyway, I ordered an Ethernet Adapter for Google Chromecast as soon as I got the new Chromecast.
Because of this, I hardly ever used the Chromecast and it was banished to the drawer of unused electronics after just a few weeks. I already have a first-generation Google Chromecast (the one that’s an HDMI stick with one rounded end.) The problem, however, is that the first-generation Chromecast only supports 2,4 GHz wireless networks, and those channels are seriously congested with some 380+ Wi-Fi networks in the immediate vicinity.
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As I already use Android devices to queue up videos, I thought it would make sense to give the second-generation Google Chromecast a try. The apps crash a lot, videos refuse to start playing, and it takes way to long to get the thing working. The YouTube app on my Xbox One as well as the PlayStation 4 has been giving me trouble every evening for the last six months. A wired network connection will ensure the Chromecast will get all the bandwidth it needs on your network. A lot of Wi-Fi signaling means your Wi-Fi may be unstable because of interference from all your neighbors’ networks. Google seems to be making its presence known in just about every area of networking these days.Why get an Ethernet adapter for what is intended to be a wireless display device? Well, like me – you might live in an apartment complex where every neighbor has at least two Wi-Fi networks each. If it's true, would Google have an impact on the high-speed switching market? It wouldn't surprise me. And it just so happens that Arastra founder Andy Bechtolsheim is tied to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as they both were execs at Sun, and Bechtolsheim was apparently an early investor in Google. He is convinced that Google is using a non-standard and low-cost optical format tailored for the short reach of data centers - and that the format may find its way into broader commercial use now that Google is using it.įurther connecting the dots, Schmitt says Arastra (a start-up that recently introduced its first products for the data center) is doing something similar to what he believes Google is doing. Without citing sources, Schmitt said that Google is likely basing its switches on Broadcom silicon. "We were watching shipments of SFP+ components for 10GbE in the market but simply couldn’t account for their end destination - sort of an optical component dark matter problem… Through conversations with multiple carrier, equipment, and component industry sources we have confirmed that Google has designed, built, and deployed homebrewed 10GbE switches for providing server interconnect within their data centers."
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