by simon baird
Monday, June 26, 2006
geeky stuff
Long time readers might have noticed my super home media thingy in the photo in my previous post. A slight update on that fine piece of kit is that I fixed by bandwidth problems between upstairs and downstairs. I can now watch any video and share iTunes libraries from upstairs. I will try to explain with a diagram. Old configuration (problematic):
[Upstairs PC]
<--wireless-->
[ADSL Box (kitchen)]
<--wireless-->
[SHMThing]
The wireless card in Upstairs PC was a bit flakey and causing drop outs in connectivity. Now I have this new configuration:
[Upstairs PC]
<--good old wired ethernet-->
[ADSL Box (study)]
<--wireless-->
[SHMThing]
I moved the ADSL box from the kitchen to the study with Upstairs PC. If I position in right I can get a good signal strength to downstairs. And now everything is cool. Except I need to get some more disk space upstairs (more room for mp3s, torrents and dvd rips) and down (more room for recorded tv shows).
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