Wireless LAN

[syncguy]

It appears that there is a trend to prefer wired Ethernet over wireless. I wish to give some perspective to this.

Wireless technology was originally designed to give original Ethernet speeds, i.e. about 10 Mbit/s in a typical home environment. This works okay for Internet connections and give sufficient bandwidth for many people to browse and streaming Internet quality videos. In many cases Internet is the bottleneck rather than the wireless connection. Internet itself gets congested in peak times and would be inferior (at least time to time) in comparison to a typical home wireless connection.

There are many people using wireless connections for firmware upgrades without any issues. I expect firmware upgrade software is designed to cope with temporary interruptions to the data connection as it relies on unpredictable Internet - if this is not the case there could be issues with wireless firmware upgrades and also for Internet firmware upgrades.

Having said that I also should note that I am using a wired Ethernet connection and have a personal preference for wired over wireless. So my recommendation is to use a wired connection as the preferred option if it is practical run a cable between your blu-ray player and the router. If not (and if your blu-ray player is WiFi) you should try wireless (provided your router is wireless). It should work okay unless you have electromagnetic interference issues in your home environment. One classic example is placing a microwave over in the radio path of your wireless connection.