my phone does this no problem and it is a cheap model so this is not exactly a high end feature just one that lg supports very well.
:(Īnyone know anything about this as it would be nice to wirelessly share my pc with my roku stick in another room. i can't find a list of supported hardware online nor any reference to wifidirect on any info sheet anywhere.
i was going to try my luck and get a new ac model assuming it would be new enough to have it supported but would rather not play the guessing game with multiple models if it is not going to be universally supported. i can't find anything in any feature list for any brand wifi stick that says it supports the wifidirect standard that miracast uses.ĭoes anyone know how/where it is listed or is it safe to assume it is there for any newer dongle i buy.
I would also like my desktop to connect the same way but my even older wifi dongle (n rated one) on my pc does not support it either. i can get over that as the laptop is a few years old. best i can tell is that the wifi card is too old and does not support the finalized feature. sadly, the finalized version does not work on my laptop like it did on win 8.1. win 10 has finished this feature and it is now built into windows. win 8.1 had this as a beta feature and i was able to use it on my laptop. My lg phone is very easy to connect to my roku stick using the miracast feature. i wonder if the writer of this article knows a bit more about the features on these dongles? Here's another thought since am actually in the middle of trying to figure this out. Moving out to 75 feet with a wall in the way, the averages dropped off quite a bit, with TP-Link at 24.4 Mb/s, ZyXEL at 21.6 Mb/s, D-Link at 17.6 Mb/s and Netgear at 10.9 Mb/s. The quickest average again came from ZyXEL at 67.9 Mb/s, followed by Netgear at 60.2 Mb/s, D-Link at 43.7 Mb/s and TP-Link at 38.1 Mb/s.
At the same 25-foot distance, the averages reveal bigger differences. This phenomenon was reproduced by every adapter except Netgear's, and the lesson is that if you're five feet away, plug in via Ethernet rather than use a Wi-Fi adapter.Īt 25 feet from the router, ZyXEL's AC240 registered a maximum of 99.2 Mb/s, followed by D-Link at 96 Mb/s, Netgear at 94 Mb/s and TP-Link at 91 Mb/s. While it is intuitive that performance suffers from greater distances, it's less obvious that being too close to your router can cause issues as well. The transfer rates at 2.4GHz were at their fastest from 25 to 50 feet away from the router, and they dropped off from five feet away (too close) or 75 feet away through an interfering obstacle. In the line chart showing average performance, of the four adapters tested on the 2.4GHz band, ZyXEL delivered the fastest speed across the 25- and 50-foot distances, with Netgear quicker at five feet and TP-Link faster at 75 feet. In some cases, such as D-Link's adapter at 75 feet, there was a large difference between the minimum and maximum reported throughput. The minimum (red), maximum (black) and average (blue) throughput on the 2.4GHz band is measured by IxChariot at five feet, 25 feet, 50 feet and 75 feet and expressed in Mb/s.