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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
With wireless N, 1080P transfers shouldn't be a problem.
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First, your home network is mostly irrelevant, since the primary storage medium is supposed to be the cloud. Your internet connection will be.
Second, 1080p streaming can be a lot of things. I stream 1080i MPEG TS video, which requires
half the bandwidth of an equivalent 1080p stream, and get stuttering at anything under about 45-50mpbs on my home wireless N network. Also, probably 9/10 home wireless N networks are getting closer to 20-30mpbs sustained. (No, you're not getting 300mpbs).
Obviously Apple isn't going to store transport streams in the cloud, but my point is just that most wireless N networks aren't anywhere near as fast as a lot of people think.
I'm just on plain shaw high speed cable, and I seem to top out around 8-9mbps. Some get better speeds, some get worse. Either way, it's not fast enough to stream any kind of good quality 1080p video.
I'm guessing the cloud storage is referring to a delivery network for Apple content through iTunes, not a storage medium on which I can store my BD rips, etc.