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Yeah, I've been tinkering with media files over Wi-Fi a lot more in the last couple of years. Mainly because I, like Zara, I rip all my physical to a drive. I haven't however, done anything remotely as together as what Zara has and probably won't but I do appreciate the operability of such things. I've tried the USB port on the router, Plex, DLNA, and for I'm using SMB but each of those has limitations. These faster WiFi speeds are nice but there's always a catch somewhere on the receiving end that I'm still working around.
Meanwhile, file transfers, yeah, that could be pretty cool to do at a 10 Gig or higher speed. Our house literally doesn't have any ethernet ports in the walls and I'm am not going to run any either due to the layout of the house even though I completely agree that is the best solution so I'm stuck using WiFi for transfers or using a portable drive to move things around, [2x reveivers for hi-res audio, 3 "smart" TVs, and 3 rigs not including a tablet and laptop.] You can imagine how insane that gets. Even with 600-800 Mbps DL speeds it's a bit much to re-download games when they're 60-100 GB in size so I usually just drop onto a drive and walk around. For the Samba box I usually have to just attach to whatever has a file I want to put on it unless I want to wait a really long time as well since those files range from 8 GB to over 60 GB.
Edit: just to add that about a year or two ago I got an Archer Wifi 6 router, don't remember the model but it was around $200-$300 and has mostly been great. I'm getting 300+ Mbps dl from anywhere in the house which has been nice and I'm not overly worried about latency since I don't game online.
Meanwhile, file transfers, yeah, that could be pretty cool to do at a 10 Gig or higher speed. Our house literally doesn't have any ethernet ports in the walls and I'm am not going to run any either due to the layout of the house even though I completely agree that is the best solution so I'm stuck using WiFi for transfers or using a portable drive to move things around, [2x reveivers for hi-res audio, 3 "smart" TVs, and 3 rigs not including a tablet and laptop.] You can imagine how insane that gets. Even with 600-800 Mbps DL speeds it's a bit much to re-download games when they're 60-100 GB in size so I usually just drop onto a drive and walk around. For the Samba box I usually have to just attach to whatever has a file I want to put on it unless I want to wait a really long time as well since those files range from 8 GB to over 60 GB.
Edit: just to add that about a year or two ago I got an Archer Wifi 6 router, don't remember the model but it was around $200-$300 and has mostly been great. I'm getting 300+ Mbps dl from anywhere in the house which has been nice and I'm not overly worried about latency since I don't game online.