It appears silicondust OTA tuners all require an Ethernet connection to the router. My antenna drop and my router are on different floors. Does anyone know of a tuner that supports WiFi?
I doubt you're likely to find one. OTA broadcasts can be quite bandwidth heavy, and when using an OTA tuner, using wired networking is always the recommended option. If you cannot physically locate your tuner near your router, you might want to look into MoCA or power line network adapters.
Yes as above or you extend your network wirelessly and plug int he hdhomerun into the extender
You might have to invest on a AiMesh AX6100 WiFi System (RT-AX92U 2 Pack) that has a backbone WIFI 6 Connection between the 2 that runs at 4804 faster than GIGABIT. ... but is expensive.
A 1080 stream should only be about 8-10mbps, I can easily push several of those over my wireless network. I have two access point, one just one floor above the antenna drop, maybe 20 feet away. I really don't want to invest in power line network adapters, and buy a tuner. If I'm going to spend $200+, I may as well just pay $5 a month OTA channels.
Yeah, I thought about a nice wireless AC bridge. Bah. Maybe I do just throw down money for it. Will be cheaper than $5 a month for life eventually...
I have a unifi network at home, but I have thought of upgrading to their WIFI 6 products. Do I need that kind of speed to stream 1080 HD from a few tuners at once?
HDHR OTA streams are MPEG2, so closer to 18-20mbps and very sensitive to network latency.
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Interesting. I currently use an AirTV 2, it's entirely accessed via wifi and I haven't had any issues with it. If it's backend app (sling) wasn't total crap, I'd still use it. Any chance of supporting AirTV devices?
The more robust your infrastructure is, the more you will use features because they will have lower latency and better experience you will have with the entire solution, and build upon future improvements.
Here's what I do. I have an Orbi mesh network. The satellite unit has ethernet ports. So, I set the satellite near my antenna and plug the tuner into it. My Orbi base is 2 floors down near the cable modem. Works fine. Orbi cost about $200 for a pair.
Same here. I drilled through the subfloor of my office and the drywall in the corner of my family room ceiling and dropped some Cat6 between. My router is upstairs with most of the equipment in my office; the antenna comes in downstairs near where I dropped the ethernet to a small managed switch that hosts the tuners, a second wireless access point for the downstairs, and the POE switch for my cameras in the garage.
I have had similar luck with 2 eero pro routers between 2 floors. I get rock solid performance with an antenna plugged into an HDHomeRun Connect Quatro.
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I used this little TP-Link travel router to connect an HDHomerun dual tuner to the network at one son's house. $29! And something similar with an old Wi-Fi extender with an ethernet port that I had laying around at the other son's house. No need for a fancy router. Both have worked fine.
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I should have updated this post - I got a cheap wireless AC extender and plugged it in to my dual tuner. Works perfect. Uses about 8-38Mbps, depending on what it's recording, but still, in theory, my network can handle hundreds of megabits per second. No problem.
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Heh, check out the new AX6000 model. Those jokers at Netgear want a GRAND for the set.
But I agree. The base and satellite communicate fast enough where you can use them to bridge without an issue.
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