What remote would you experts choose for controlling WMC, a Sony XBR, and an Onkyo AV receiver? I'm tired of all these remotes! (and my wife can't watch TV....

My HTPC has been stable for almost 2 years. I use S3 sleep. Recently, when it wakes, it intermittently displays an icon in the system tray (near the clock) that says that there is no Internet connection.

When this happens, I cannot connect to any network resource, not even my router (the default...

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Looking for users who have had this problem with the Windows Home Server 2011 Remote Web Access - Music Player silverlight app, on larger music collections when you attempt to play an album the silverlight app is launched in the browser popup window but the album does not play and you just get...

I am considering moving my HTPC into the basement about 50ft from my main tv (mostly for aesthetics and to avoid fan noise). I want to continue to use the HTPC on my main tv for playing dvd/bluray rips. I am looking at various HDMI options at monoprice and was wondering if anyone has any experience...

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I am migrating from WHS V1 to a new WHS 2011 box, I have a problem on the link below can anyone help ?

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Hi,
My WHS 2011 has been set up for roughly 2 years and I received a mac laptop as a gift recently.

I've been trying to get my Macbook (10.8.2) running WHS 2011 launchpad but it seems to be a brick wall, filled with problems. When I first downloaded the 'connector' when I tried to log in it would...

How do I find out if I need to start thinking about turning on IPV6? I just installed new firmware for my router and now it has this IPV6 option. Should it be turned on? and if so, what setting?

Let me off saying that I have a pretty large home network already. I want to expand this network with TV / DVR capabilities. My setup is that my Home is in NJ where there is 1 desktop, 3+ windows laptops, a slingbox and a server. The server is being used as a file server, PLEX server, VPN server,...

Ok..
A little background..
I installed WHS 2011 on my new built WHS. OS on an SSD, Shared Files etc. on a HDD.
I installed the HDD and set up my Shared folders on it. I then a week later decided that the drive I was going to use was just too small and updated to a newer 2TB drive.
I moved all the...

I'm looking at buying a small NAS device along the lines of a QNAP 419 series for all my recorded tv, including the livetv buffer.

I'm curious what others have experienced in this arena. Specifically, I have dual Ceton cards (8 Tuners), and there could potentially be a lot of data hitting this...

Howdy good people,

I am currently trying to set up a vlan that will segment traffic between data and voip. My current set up is as follows.

Dell Powerconnect 5324

ethernet g1 connected to

Verizon Acitontec which serves as the DHCP server for all the devices.

I am having a problem figuring...

So i recently switched to a new router, but since the switch, I can't seem to get the Wake-On-Lan working. I know I've got the right IP info, I've put the information in port forwarding, I know the computer accepts WoL because it has worked in the past. I even tried disabling the router firewall-...

I know there are better places to ask but I thought I'd start here:

Is anybody familiar with the iTap RDP app (Android and iOS)

I can log on to my server locally but I'm looking to access my WHS over 3G using the same app. I'm a bit at a loss as to setting it up. Any basic instructions? I think I...

Simple enough, I have my PC's wired on Gig Connections Please choose the one you most use for your media streaming at home.

Additional info like the fact I use a Netgear N300 Gigabit ADSL to connect my PC's together in a small Lan environment also lets us know whos using what!!

Anyone care that WHS is officially dead?

I thought v1 was a great idea, but never got around to building it into my home environment. With Drive Extender removed from v2 I no longer saw any point in the product so stopping thinking about it. Now I'll never get chance to do anything with it!...

I have a quad core AMD phenom
8GB ddr3
Dedicated Video
Ceton tuner
Win 7 64bit
Verizon Fios
I do not experience these problems directly on the media center PC. There are some channels that always give me problems. For instance Fox Soccer does not play well on my network, it always stuuters,...

Hey All,

So I have the Dell Power Connect 5324 sitting here in my hands. I also have a USB to RS232 cable with a female adapter to connect to the switch. I have the usb connected to my desktop and the DB 9 connected to the switch.
I am attempting to use Hyperterminal to connect to the switch. I...

Hey guys,

Just wanted to drop a link that gives the basics of computer networking.

The chapter list is on the bottom of the page.

I realize that most of the folks on this board already know the in's and out's of networking. But for myself personally I only knew little bits and pieces. I...

Hi Guys,

I am in the process of fully networking my house and building a few low profile HTPC's for the bedrooms . I would like some opinions on on the set up I have in mind.

1- Current Set Up

I have a HP Mediasmart that has servered me faithfully for years. It currently resides in my humid...

Anybody got any ideas to get through or around this one. I have rebooted both server and clients and looked for pending file renames in the registry. I have tried to connect from 3 different workstations (M4A780PRO Ultimate 64 bit) (DELL Ultimate 64 bit) and (SONY Ultimate 32 bit). I get the same...

Hi All,

So I am currenly in the process of attempting to set up to HTPC with remote potato. I currently have it set up and working well over http using a dyndns DNS name. My next step is to get it working over https but I might have a small problem.

I already have Windows Home Server set up for...

Hi All,

I am in the process of finding the best method to convert .WTV files into another format that can be played by other devices. Namely a Asus Transformer running Android ICS.

Currently I am running a HTPC on the front end and a HP Mediasmart running Windows Home Server V1. With that being...

Almost 200 Gigabytes a day. That's how much TV is streamed from my DVBLink machine to TV's in the house.

Stats taken at switch port so Traffic IN is actually Traffic Out from the server.

I have a Windows media server 2003, with 30TB storage, and a HTPC at my TV, and two wireless XBox 360's that work great. I have cat6 cable ran between the TV and HTPC. The WMC works great except the video is choppy at times on my HTPC only. My switch is a gigabyte unmanaged switch. I think the...

I live an apartment, so running cables through walls isn't always the best option. And I hate wireless (spotty connections on N and for some reason it drops out a lot).

I am looking at either 85mbps or 200mbps power line networking adapters, and I'm wondering if anyone else has any info to share...

Hi All,
I hope someone can help me with this question or put me to a more appropriate forum or existing post if required.
My husband setup a fanstastic arrangement with windows 7 media centre with 2 xbox360 extenders wired off it to two separate rooms which works great. Very stable, records tv...

I've got a bunch of things on my home (wired) network. Tuners, AVR's, Squeezebox, ups, xbox 360's, computers.

Most of it besides the computers is 100mb.

If I turn on jumbo frames on the WHS2011 and my HTPC, will the xbox's function ok (HDTV/Movies)? All the other devices (maybe pulling music...

So, I'm considering enabling IPv6 on my router primarily so I can disable UPNP (it causes my DDWRT router to overflow it's NVRAM and I'm sick of manually configuring port forwards on my router). As I understand it, IPv6 will expose every computer on my network to the internet, with only their own...

My Network consists of 4 PC's (including the HTPC) an XBOX and a DMA 2100.
I have my main desktop PC hooked up with CAT6 cables to the Router (Linksys E4200) As is the HTPC (CAT5)
Would I gain anything switching the CAT5 on the HTPC to CAT6? sometimes I get a bit of network lag on the XBOX and...

I have 2 laptops running vista ultimate. One is connected to my tv and is used solely as a media centre for live tv, video, pictures & music. I am trying to use my second laptop to control the media centre PC via remote desktop.
My question is: How do I enable the media centre ‘burn dvd’ program on...

Hey everyone - I've been running WHS 2011 for a while now and this one is starting to bug me. I have two user names set up for WHS one for myself and one for the MCE in the living room.

On almost my machines at most times the launchpad is signed in without a specific user name. I can't log out...

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currently I have an iPhone 3GS, but when my contract runs out later this year, I'm looking to replace it with a WP7, something like a Lumia 800, but curious as to whether the same is possible as I have on the iphone.

At the moment, I have all our music stored on our WHS v1, which is running...

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Has any got BT Infinity with a BT Home Hub V3 and WOL working with their WHS or PC?
I know what you should do to get this working and have done such configurations many times before
In the past, but it just does not seem to work with this BT router.

I'd like to be able to send a WOL command...

I went to do a routine check on my backups this morning and I got a No Backups Available message when I tried to view the backups on all my computers.
The backup service is running on WHS and the client computers and No error message shows up in Launchpad. Nothing relevant shows in the event...

I just wanted to say I love my WHS :D

Not sure about upgrading to V2 though, could be expensive needing all new matched drives for hardware raid and I'd want to build a completely new rig.

Who's already taken the jump to WHS 2011 ? And how did you find the transition ?

Hi all,

I've been trying to get an Xbox360 set up as an extender for MCE. Unfortunately the only support from Microsoft is for Vista/7 and I've reverted to MCE2005 as it causes me fewer problems.

Does anyone have the software for MCE2005 to Xbox360 archived anywhere on their systems? I'm getting...

I have been trying to install the connector software on my windows XP sp3 netbooks. The installer gets all the way to configuring my computer and then displays the error message which says Installer has encountered an unexpected error press close to undue most of the changes made. When i check the...

I had the bright idea to install WHS using VirtualBox having never used either. After some playing around I finally got WHS to install but unfortunately it won't recognize the NIC. I've tried manually installing the driver but it keeps saying that the NIC failed to start. Any ideas?

I want to use XBOX extenders in several rooms and have a central Windows 7 computer with Media Center 7 as the command and control computer. I know if I just used the Windows 7 computer as the main server/storage area then everything would use Media Center as the GUI and all would be good.

My...

I'm am trying to stream Recorded TV and Movies from my source HTPC to a target Win7 WMC machine that is mapping back to the source to pull Video and Recorded TV content over VPN.

Question, what should my Source and Target network strength be to allow uninterrupted HD Streaming? It appears my...

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I would like to enquire if anyone is aware of a way I can allow the remote client to display whilst runnning a Remote Desktop connection? I would like to be able to use an RDP connection from my laptop to the media centre connected to the TV.

Thanks

I can't seem to get cid capable modems to register a call in v2011, has anybody else tried this? I feel I may alone in my plight.

A few years back I had a WHS installed and it worked great. I had to let it go because of space limitations in the new place. I have moved again and now have WHS on my network. I used to use WHS Recorded TV manager and it worked great. However, I went to download it and install it again and found...

My main office desktop PC & backup Media Center PC has developed an annoying behavior. It started the weekend I installed WHS 2011 on to the server. But I THINK it installed or updated Windows Live at that time as well. The desktop PC has an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card and a Samsung 1920...

I'm reconfiguring my rack and cabling this weekend.

Questions:

1.) I'm thinking about running my cat6 from Modem to Router thru the Voltage Regulator/Surge Protector/UPS.

Is this a: good idea, bad idea or it doesn't matter?

(If not a good idea, how about between the router and the switch?)...

Hi,

just curious to see if anyone has any ideas on how to speed up the allocation of ip addresses.

On my setup, the router is the dhcp provider, this is connected by 100 mbit connection to a gigabit switch, which is then connected to our main house gigabit switch, and most of the pcs etc connect...

My eyes go cross eyed trying to do windows stuff on my HTPC with a wired keyboard 5 feet in front of the big screen. So I think doing a remote desktop from my den would make more sense. However I have never done remote desktop.

I am trying to connect to the PC in the next room, which is already...

I have an H55 intel motherboard with onboard gigabit nic on my HTPC. I just bought a HP Procurve 1410 switch. I have another computer with an onboard nic. All the wire and female adapters are cat6. File transfers between the two are stuck at about 10 MB/s. Way too slow for moving movies around. I...

Hey all--

Question-- how are people getting around setting up WHS2011 Remote Access when ISPs blocking port 80?

I'm considering getting a DynDNS Account with CustomDNS to use their WebHop feature to hop (a DynDNS domain name I will have) during the WHS2011 Remote Setup (where it's asking for my...

Is there any benefit or downside (aside from monetary) to buying a cable modem? I noticed Comcrap is charging $7 a month now to lease. Modems aren't that expensive.