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In Reply to: RE: 50 ft ethernet vs. wireless posted by Charlie8521 on September 01, 2014 at 16:41:04
Only way to tell for sure is to try it for yourself and see. Run a standard 50-foot Ethernet cable and string it out temporary. Unless you're having some wireless issues my bet is that you will not hear a significant improvement streaming low bit-rate over hardwired Ethernet.
But I have a question for you. Are you using the Mac Mini mainly as a streaming 'receiver'? Have you tried the tiny $99 AppleTV box instead? I can stream pretty much anything to it from my computer in the office. My AppleTV is on hardwired Ethernet in the family room.... but it also supports wifi.
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I considered the Apple TV, but thought I would get better Audio and Video from a Mac Mini through the wireless connection. May have been a $500 mistake, but that's what I did.
It depends.
If you stream 'better than CD quality' content like 'hi-rez' music files downloaded from HDtracks and others, the Mac Mini can sound significantly better than the AppleTV.
The AppleTV supports up to 'CD quality', and since most all streaming music services are less than 'CD quality', the AppleTV is a good choice. The AppleTV includes a handful of Apps including iTunes Radio. Additionally, if you have another computer in the house with music on it, you can 'stream' that music from the computer to the AppleTV.
Of course you can do so much more with the Mac Mini so I wouldn't sweat it.
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