[MrBuddyCasino]

Is it? My impression was that the ESP8266 can do maybe 56k level throughput, suitable for sensors but not for streaming meaningful amounts of data. It is really really cheap though, which is great in itself and enables new applications.

Also the CC3000 is quite buggy, try using the newer CC3100/3200 if possible, pre-production silicon is already available.

[deutronium]

I'm still waiting for mine to arrive, but I'm wondering if it _may_ be possible to get faster data rates without using the AT commands, and running code on the ESP8266 itself.

[MrBuddyCasino]

Ah yes that would be the holy grail, most BLE or Wifi chips have an MCU that could be used if their dev. environment weren't the software equivalent of unobtainium, require 500$ dev boards and / or be totally obscure.

If you find out anything, make sure to post it somewhere!