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Ok, my PC is a floor below my TV, I have a very bad internet speed (5 mbps upload and download, max 10), and Steam streaming to my laptop is very laggy, it says slow network a lot of the time. I do not want to spend $250 on Nvidia Shield. I cannot get a super long hdmi cable as my mother (I'm 13) won't allow me to run a cable around the house. I was considering buying a raspberry pi 2 for streaming (youtube it) but idk if it would work well... idk what it depends on, if its the network, LAN or graphics card.
Specs: CPU: i3 550 3.2Ghz
Graphics: GTX 750 Ti (saved up money)
Ram: 4gb
 
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The best option would be wired ethernet. If that's not possible, anything you can do to increase your LAN data speeds and reduce latency should help. Like I said, I don't see any lag when I run this over gigabit ethernet and the video looks just like it would if I was playing it natively on the secondary PC. The only difference is that I'm taking advantage of the stronger hardware in my PC downstairs.
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Uhh, people don't stream their PC over the internet to their tvs. They just connect a video cable from the PC to the TV, so you have to move the PC or run ethernet cable through the house, and you need these like $100-200 adapters to do that.

Smart TVs just have ethernet ports on them and preinstalled apps/programs that let them connect to netflix/youtube/ect.

If you have a bad connection from your PC to your laptop, then that means your wireless router isn't very good and unless your replace that you can't really do this no matter what.
 
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This post is confusing. Are you talking about streaming video like youtube or Netflix or using Steam's in home streaming to stream games from a stronger gaming PC in another room to your laptop connected to the TV?

If you are talking about Steam in-home streaming I have used that a few times to stream from my gaming PC at my TV to a weaker PC at a desk to play keyboard and mouse games. It works very well streaming over my wired gigabit ethernet. Your internet speeds don't mater for this feature. Everything takes place on your home LAN. Steam does not recommend WiFi for this since latency is very important.

I'm not sure a Raspberry Pi would work for Steam in home streaming. I think you need to be running Windows or Steam OS on the machine you want to stream to. A Raspberry Pi also wouldn't help with the fact that you are trying to do this over a weak WiFi connection instead of ethernet

 
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My mistake, I meant steam's in home streaming kind of thing. Powerful PC to a laptop connected to a TV, something like that. The Pi would be using Nvidia's Gamestream. I tried it out, little less laggy than Steam's in-home streaming. I actually have a good router just a bad internet connection. Its a Belkin AC750, giving me more than what my wifi adapter can handle (max 300 mpbs). I learnt that it depends on wifi, not net, so should I get a better adapter that can handle 600 mpbs with 5GHz?
 
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The best option would be wired ethernet. If that's not possible, anything you can do to increase your LAN data speeds and reduce latency should help. Like I said, I don't see any lag when I run this over gigabit ethernet and the video looks just like it would if I was playing it natively on the secondary PC. The only difference is that I'm taking advantage of the stronger hardware in my PC downstairs.
 
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