Using AppleTV as an Airport "n" station

[Former Bender]

Some on you guys who have installed OS X on your ATV,
I think that you can plug your internet connection by Ethernet and activate the internet sharing using Airport.

Boom, you've got an airportTV "b.g.n" base station and can still access your computer itunes sharing :D

[Gnuet]

With ofcourse very limited range since the internal antenna doesn't look like a "killer". But then again you could swap it out for a better external one...

Would be cool if one could activate internet sharing without having to run full OS X on the aTV. Like: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_Internet_Sharing

[Former Bender]

I'm glad some other guys have thought about it too. :)

[Andrmgic]

Sadly, the ethernet port on the appletv is limited to 100Mbps, so it couldn't live up to its full potential as a 802.11n base station, but it is still a cool idea :)

[Gnuet]

But on the other hand, aren't you happy with 100Mbit? It's either that or go the whole way to Gigabit.

[R2B2]

The ethernet port on Apple's 802.11n basestation is also 100Mbs.

[mfbernstein]

I don't see the problem with 100Mbs. Has anyone seen real-life wireless transfers above that speed? As a wired hub, it may not be ideal, but as a wireless router, it's perfectly acceptable.

[logandzwon]

I don't see the problem with 100Mbs. Has anyone seen real-life wireless transfers above that speed? As a wired hub, it may not be ideal, but as a wireless router, it's perfectly acceptable.

100Mbs IS about the real world limit of 802.11n.

However, remember, wireless is non-switching half-duplux.

So, if you have 4 machine plugged into a switch, machine A can tranfer a file to machine B, while machine B sends another file back, while machine C sends a file to machine D, while machine D sends a file back to machine C all at about full 100Mbs speeds (as long as you don't have a crappy switch.)

With 802.11n if everyone is doing the same trades, each station is going to get about 15~20Mbs because 4 machines are splitting the bandwidth, and there are going to be a bunch of collisions, requiring machines to resend packets.