I have a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia 950 XL. Was considering buying a Microsoft Wireless Display adapter, mostly for my Surface, but was wondering how Continuum worked with the adapter. Any thoughts?
I have it and works good with it's firmware updated, there's only a bit of lag (it's normal of Miracast anyway) but not that much. Compression it's good unless there's massive movement on screen like a racing game, and then there's the 30fps refresh rate, not a real bummer in general but your phone's screen will also work at 30fps.I have a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia 950 XL. Was considering buying a Microsoft Wireless Display adapter, mostly for my Surface, but was wondering how Continuum worked with the adapter. Any thoughts?
Not planning on using it for gaming, but might want to beam television or movies to my screen (from the surface that is, dont think will use my phone for that). Hows that working? Refreshrate enough for for example youtube? (not expecting 1080p/24fps 7.1 surround sound blu ray quality, just beaming film to the big screen is enough)
I have a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia 950 XL. Was considering buying a Microsoft Wireless Display adapter, mostly for my Surface, but was wondering how Continuum worked with the adapter. Any thoughts?
It looks like the adaptor get interference on the WiFi around your place. You could reset the wireless display adaptor's radio frequency band by press the button on it for 10sec, then if should worked better. I can't really say for chrome or apple TV, since never own any of them, but for miracasting, this one is one of the best I have used and it works for android too if you wonder.Originally posted by mattdodwell
I bought the Wireless adaptor to use to stream movies from my 950 to my tele just like I used to do with my iPhone, Chromecast and Google Play. All I can say that I want to throw my phone at the TV. My wireless adaptor is updated with the latest firmware and there is still lag on playback. I expect with modern tech if Apple and Google can do it with no lag, MS should be able to do it too.
I was so ready to get rid of mu aging iPad, and move to MS10 with my Lumia 950 and a Surface 3, but I just can't do it.
I bought the Wireless adaptor to use to stream movies from my 950 to my tele just like I used to do with my iPhone, Chromecast and Google Play. All I can say that I want to throw my phone at the TV. My wireless adaptor is updated with the latest firmware and there is still lag on playback. I expect with modern tech if Apple and Google can do it with no lag, MS should be able to do it too.
I was so ready to get rid of mu aging iPad, and move to MS10 with my Lumia 950 and a Surface 3, but I just can't do it.
What kind of lag are you getting? It's reasonable to expect a smidgen of latency, nothing more than 0.25 second though. I experience about 0.025 second of latency with my Actiontec ScreenBeam Mini2 from my W10 PC, Lumia 635 as well as my LG Volt (Kit Kat), and it's hardly even noticeable.
Now, Miracast is based on Intel WiDi, or WiFi Direct. The nice thing is you don't need an existing wireless network as a pass through. The connection is, as the name suggests, direct from your device to the Miracast dongle. Meanwhile, Chromecast, Amazon Fire Stick & Apple TV need to be connected through your existing home network via your wireless router. It stands to reason that one should expect more latency/lag with one of these setups.
Now, since your firmware is current, I would suggest you try moving the dongle around a bit for a more direct line-of-sight orientation. Or possibly the dongle is picking up excess "noise". If your MS piece came with an HDMI extension cable, use it. Like I said I have exactly zero issues with my Actiontec device. I wish you good luck.
Are you talking about the new (2016) wireless adapter or the old one?