I installed a new router yesterday and thought it would be a good time to clean up my IP address table in my network. I also checked for any firmware updates and found Netgear released 2.0.1.26 for my JGS524Ev2 (24 port ProSafe unmanaged gigabit switch). The make 5, 8, and 16 port versions in this...

Any idea if it is possible to run a WMC server at home where I also have a VPN server, and connect to my home VPN from a remote location and watch recordings and live TV via an xbox360 extender that is connected to my home VPN? Assuming I can get around 10mbps? (HD should be around 5mbps I think)

Getting a hand me down Denon A/V receiver and plan to set it up in another room.

What are my WMC, extender options, etc.? Needs to support FLAC files. The main HTPC is Windows 8.1 WMC on a NUC with 3rd party FLAC codec, property handler, and WMP Tag Plus. Works well.

An extender would be nice but...

I have a WD Mycloud with 4 drives plugged into it and it is not strong enough to handle My MCE with KODI to raspberries .
Since now I have several TV that are smart TV's with PLEX .
So I have couple of empty tower PC's with 8 bays
Thinking about installing a FREE NAS software to a SD drive in tower...

I've had a box running WMC for 5 years without an issue, and am now putting in a server to handle multiple other things. It's not essential, but if it's possible I'd like to decommission the Win7 box whirring in my family room, and use a VM to serve the 4 echos in the house. Well, 5 once I remove...

Trying to get organized in a particular way for power/vacation reasons.
I am concentrating my network, and am close to being able to turn off the ONT, the router, and various stations and just have the HTPC with HDHR powered and UPS'ed during vacations for OTA.

I happen to like wired networks, and...

If you’re one of the “victims” of the WiFi connected but still no Internet access problem, you’re not alone. Thousand of users have reported the same. But luckily, they’ve successfully tackled the problem with the following fixes…

please check whether other devices that are connected to the same...

I had an issue with my extenders not seeing my media libraries that have been setup automatically on Windows 7 PC. The PC could see these libraries but the extender could not see my Music, Photos, Videos, and Movies. Enabling the guest account and giving it read access to the respective folders...

If you want to have a page you create display when someone comes to your site instead of the page which is displayed now, it is very easy to do. Just follow the three steps below.

Note: Always make a back up of any core file you are going to change. This will allow you to easily revert back to the...

Has anyone been successful in getting the new Amazon Cube to control a Windows Media Center system? -- (the Amazon Echo - Cube thingy with a Fire TV built in).

It has support for various DVR/set-top boxes (like from Satellite TV or Cable companies) so you can do like Alexa, tune to ESPN -- and it...

For reasons that go beyond what I'm trying to accomplish here, I could not progress past 94 percent while installing WHS 2011 on one of my machines. Because of this, the dashboard application would not open, and Windows was giving me a message about how I had to reinstall Windows. To overcome this...

Taken from RoderickGI on the JRiver Forums found here:

This will not be a thorough description, but hopefully points users in the right direction if they have lost the ability to Browse their Local Area Network or what used to be known as Network Neighbourhood. If you know what you are doing,...

My current server' is actually just an old dell desktop will hard drives stuffed inside any way I could fit them so I feel a need to do something about this. I have been looking at HP mediasmart PCs on ebay but before I buy, I want to make sure that it will run WHS 2011, and I won't have any...

I have wanting to get my hands on one of the PepLink SOHO routers for quite a while because they have good reviews, and regularly release software updates but I wanted to gather some feedback first. I would like to eventually wire my house so that each room has its own switch, and these switches...

Hi,

I have an Echo Dot and i have assigned it a static IP in my Cisco 887 router the same way i have assigned all my other devices a static IP address, The echo will not pick up the static ip address at all yet all my other devices pick there static IP's up with no issue. Has anyone seen this...

I have a Win 7 machine that I use for server duties. I want to use the machine for extender use, and I also have emby server installed on this machine. This is where I store all of my media files, and I would also like to use it for backups as well. I have three machines I would like to store...

If you try to record to a NAS over a network with this it's going to give you huge headaches. Network traffic will cause your video to jitter and freeze due to inconsistency in speed. This is why MS doesn't all you to do it. (very easily, lol)

BUT, if you're running Win 7 WMC in a VM that's on top...

Not sure f this is the right place to post this. if its not i apologize

so i'm gonna be building a new HTPC and putting everything into a 4U server case to be mounted in a rack. Im currently running 2 infinitv 4 cards in my current setup. 4 tuners wasn't enough but 6 will do. so i was going to get...

I have been playing around with a HDHomerun Prime and WMC for the first time for a couple of months. I added a Xbox360 to the living room and am happy enough that all the family can use it better than the crappy Comcast HD DVR that constantly locks up or gets full.

I've started wiring up the house...

I have a DMA2200 I'm going to throw in the basement but I need to get a connection to it. I decided I'll try a powerline adaptor but I see many brands with other added features like four port and wireless. I'm only interested in hearing your success story. My main interest is hearing if you have a...

I thought I would take a moment to document a method for using iSCSI to attach a magnetic disk over the network to make available to Media Center for buffering of live TV and for recording. You'll need a handful of things.

1. A Media Center client with an SSD
2. Host capable of producing an iSCSI...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but it is network related. Also, This is a cross post from avsforum as I'm looking for information.

I'll start off with the issue. My HTPC in my Family Room has recently started to not want to connect to the wired Ethernet and is slow to load but...

I have been running my Windows 7 Media Center + HD Homerun Prime HTPC for 4 years now, and I love it. I have a way overkill desktop (i7, 16GB RAM, 250 SSD for OS, 2TB RAID1 for storage), and it has been running well without a hitch. However, it's time to add a second computer to my setup in the...

So finally got out of renting and picked up the keys to a 2 story home that is only 5 years old. While in the house today I took a look at the wiring to try and figure out the best way to setup or run cat6 (which I have plenty of spools of!)

But while poking around noticed that from the outside...

Ok, so file this in the category of, I want new toys and want to make sure there is a reason to justify it.

I have attached a diagram of my current network with equipment. Although i don't have any specific problems I do see occasional packet loss on the HD Homerun and I have to reboot the WRT-160...

bro i am form Bangladesh...
my country some people satellite HD Receiver to use internet on computer...
but how it possible ..

some people give me idea and i show this idea ...

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I have been on the road quite a bit for the last couple months, and recently took some time off to close 2014, get the taxes ready for the preparer, and watch a little TV. While watching live I noticed a few PQ issues such as surging, a tiny bit of combing, and a bit of pixilation. My workstations...

So let me go over what I have right now...

I built a decent PC box that I use for a HTPC:

Intel i5 3.4GHz Quad Core
8GB DDR3 RAM
100GB SSD (OS)
4 x 3TB Media Drives (1 - Movies, 2 - TV Episodes, 3 - Recorded TV, 4 - Temp File storage)
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe Tuner

Here are the TVs in...

I had found online a little bit using DECA (DirecTV Ethernet-to-Coax Adapter) to extend an ethernet network over coax as an alternative to MoCa (Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance) but no definitive guides. I wanted to share my experience.

If you are unfamiliar with DECA and MoCa, the following has...

Hi All - I am looking at getting a dedicated switch since I am getting some network bandwidth issues reported by my Xbox 360s during recorded TV playback recently. I think my SurfBoard AP might be getting ready to go kaput, but I have been wanting to offload my internal traffic from the AP for a...

Hi All. I am hoping that (collectively) you can help me. I am stuck regarding where to go with my current PC / Network set up.

Here is the current situation

Desktop PC
Case: corsair Obsidian 550D
Chip: Intel i5-2500 3.3Mhz
Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB
Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V LK
Ram:...

I can watch live TV, recorded shows, videos from any device (TV, phones, tablets) in my house.

My setup:
1. OTA rabbit antenna
2. HDTV tuner: HDHomerun dual
3. HTPC: Windows Media Center (win7) + XBMC/ServerWMC
4. HDTV in bedroom + DMA2200
5. HDTV in family room + DMA2100
6. Nexus7 + XBMC/PVR
7....

Hi all

For a number of years I have been using a PC in my office as the media center. I then use a xbox360 in the main room as a windows media extender coupled up to a projector, and also have a couple of lincsys devices in the bedrooms. Within reason, it has all worked fine. (Its very slow to...

I have a DNS question. Is it incorrect of me to point my HTPC's NIC at my router's IP, then point my router to the DNS server's IP?

Hi,

I have 2x 2tb hdds on the HTPC and one 3 TB and one 4 TB attached via USBs. So locally I can see the recorded shows in from each of those drives in the recorded TV screen, but if I move a show to the 3tb drive in the NSA320 that is mapped to a z: drive, the recording disappears. I need to...

Just finished building a WHS 2011 with an Asus P8Z77-V using an Intel I 5 quad core processor.

The issue I am having is no driver for SM Bus Controller and Unknown in device manager.

I have installed the latest MEI V 8101263 chipset drivers for Windows 7 64 bit which I have read should work. I...

Hi

When ever I start a Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) from my Windows 7 laptop to the WHS 2011 box, the audio playback on the WHS stops.

I have in the RDP client settings on the Win7 laptop ticked: Play on remote computer

I have the Spotify desktop app running on the WHS 2011 box which has...

So for some reason my server just decided to become invisible.

I have three systems on my network. My HTPC, my server, and a laptop.

All systems are visible to one another in the lower left hand side of the Explorer window. From the laptop, I can click the drop down on the HTPC and see the share...

I've been experiencing some really weird network problems since rebuilding my PC (swapping out the motherboard). I use 2 xbox extenders and windows 7 home premium. Whenever I use an xbox 360 as an extender and I turn it off, it makes me disable and renable my network card before I can use any web...

Hi,

Just wondering if there is a way to stream one song to the whole house. I have a WMC 8.1 and xbox 360. Is this something that J. River does? I noticed it said something about that and streaming to mobile devices. Any help would be appreciated.

Drew

This is for monitoring WMC when I go on vacation, like when I need to change/cancel/verify/delete duplicate recordings, or reset my Ceton ETH6, or reboot the PC, etc. Not for watching video remotely... My WMC machine is running Windows 7 Pro 64bit. I have Comcast internet modem and a Cisco EA4500...

I just ordered a Cisco SG200-26P for my home. I had hoped to use it to power an AP, and a couple of security cameras. These devices are not natively PoE capable. Is it possible to use one of those injectors (actually the extractor part) from one of the Amazon kits to pull power out?

Edit:
I think...

On my HTPC, I have two users. When I browse the homegroup from a laptop, I see both users. I'd prefer to only see 1, for simplicity sake. Even when I've removed all the shares for the user I am trying to remove, I still see that user listed in the homegroup. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Hello,

My windows media center collection is about 6TB now and I need a better backup solution. I am leaning towards the Synology DS413J or DS413 using their hybrid raid and 4 x 4TB hard drives. Any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated.

I am decently familiar with traditional...

hi,

I would like to set up network storage for my home to store recorded TV and other videos from my library. Some of the videos are irreplacable and I would like to have some kind of backup setup (RAID 1 I was thinking) and I leave my HTPC on all of the time. I have 3 basic ideas

1. install 2...

So I used to run WHS v1, then I participated in Vail beta, then upgraded to WHS 2011 and was all fine and happy as I love the products not only for storage, but also for the client PC backups.

So 2012 wasn't a great year. I first had 1 of my Raid 10 drives fail, then the main OS drive failed, and...

Hi

I just built a home server for storage/media streaming to home htpcs. I record a lot up to 24 hrs a day and I would prefer to have only one machine on 24/7.

With windows 8 I know I can do WMC to record tv and home group/networking and play to to share and stream.

I have never used any home...

I have a short rack so I'm looking for something rack mountable.

Also wondering if the hardware sold on Monoprice is decent. I've gotten cables from them but never something like a switch.

Seems like a stupid thread. But I have to ditch Crashplan. It just reeks havoc on my windows media center machine and network connected devices. Even if it is supposedly not running, it frequently causes freezes I have a 50GB connection and a wired gigabit network and no matter what I tweak in...

Ok so I have been using the 2 tb Seagate go flex desktop as my backup drive

However, I have gone through 4 of them now.

They work for awhile and then eventually it seems like they burnout from overheating.

What external drive would you guys recommend to use as a backup drive....

Thanks

Hello,
I am experiencing issues with choppy video on recorded tv and with stuttering video on live tv on my televisions using 2 XBox 360s as extenders.

My setup is an a HP Ivy Bridge with 8 GB RAM, Ceton Quad Core, and Verizon FIOS as my cable/internet provider. I have done quite a bit of things...

Background. I've tried the Synology forums and have not received much response from their iSCSI message board. I am trying to find a solution to iSCSI MCS traffic issue. I am also looking for recommendations on using VLANs in a HTPC environment.

Problem. The HTPC has one NIC and the NAS has four...

I figured I would use this medium in order to show off my home network, including the HTPC and extenders and fish for some new ideas.

First, I went to monoprice and grabbed 1000' of CAT6 and all the jacks/plates/etc... that I could possibly need. I also bought a 12U rack and put my cisco equipment...

I feel like this should be easy, but I've been trying to figure it out for a while. Since reinstalling Windows 7 on my laptop, I can't access the hard drive in my HTPC from the laptop. The folders on the drive are shared with everyone and I can access them from other computers in the house, just...

I'm looking for suggestion on what kind of IP camera to buy. There are so many to choose from. Neweggs advance search actually lacks in this department.

I looking for:

HD recording
2 way Audio
IP based
Night Vision -(would be nice not a deal breaker)
Can Control from Iphone
Pan Tilt Zoom wide...

OK, so I have previously run cat6 through my house and am familiar with the basics there, I have also connected point to point using wall jacks, nothing difficult there. What I have yet to do is create whole end to end cat 6 runs complete with RJ45 connections on each end. I want to start replacing...

i'm having an issue with playing back blu-rays iso across my network stuttering. I think the issue is with the disks(WD Green Drive), the stuttering lessens when i optimize the disk but is still present. It could be a combination of things also. I looking to see if other people have issues...

This probably isn't the best place for my question, but I don't feel like finding a new forum and signing up, lol. Are any of you using remote desktop through an SSH tunnel on an Android phone? I do it with my computer, and had been doing it with my old winmo phone, but I haven't got it working on...

I have 4 xbox 360s in the house that stream up to 15MB (blue ray encoded) video each.

I went from a netgear 8 port (the old metal one) which i though was a great switch but unfortunately I learned that streaming video requires a fairly large buffer to stream constantly/smoothly. That one had a...

So I have 2 WMC PCs. One is downstairs on a hardwired connection. The other is upstairs on either a wireless A connection or a netgear homelink connection (ethernet over A/C electrical lines).

Because of the type of circuit breaker we have for the bedroom, the connection using the powerline...

I am about to rebuild my WHS and switch from WHS to Windows 7, mainly because I do not use the features of WHS and want to be able to run regular programs on it as well. I am worried about over burdening my network (gigabit) and/or over burdening my server.

1 - I plan on having 3 Ceton Echos + 3...

Hello all,

I just setup windows server essentials 2012. I configured a domain and worked through what I believe is a terrible wizard that migrates local accounts to domain accounts. But anyway is there integration with windows media center like with whs 2011? I can seem to find documentation on...

Hello

I currently have windows 7 64 bit, a ceton Infinitv 4 and a couple of echos and I am about to activate my mcard though comcast or verizon. This is a separate network from my internet and I dont plan on hooking this to the internet.

My question is, will i be able to view the shows through my...

Hi folks -
I have an HP MediaServer (can't see model on case).

The main hard drive failed last year, and I finally got around to rebuilding the media server with a new hard drive. I downloaded the 2011 home server and installed it, its running great and I like the new server software (I had the...

Simply put, there has to be a way to make the data physically look like it is there on the server so you can stream it on RA. Or access documents while I'm away from home.

I have tried junctions and dfs to no avail. I do have a SAN Server, but that can't make an iSCSI drive out of a physical disk....

I currently have a Windows Home Server v1 running at home, which has served me and my family successfully and faithfully for several years. I used it mainly to stream movies, and to play TV shows recorded with Windows Media Center 7 to 4 Xbox 360s, to store music and family pictures and backup some...

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...

Hi

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...

Hi

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

Thanks

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...

Hi

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...

Hi

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...

Hello

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.