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Originally Posted by Soundy
Could be interesting for experimenting with... could also be frustrating. All that stuff is really only relevant once you start using the machine as a domain controller. Unless you want your other machines fully reliant on it, I wouldn't suggest it for a simple home file server.
Using Win2K will also let you build your server on a lot less powerful machine, since it uses significantly less resources than XP/W2K3S. If you want to play with AD and other server features, find a copy of Win2K Server and get the best of both worlds  |
Thanks for that suggestion. I'll look into it.
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Originally Posted by aznrsx1979
I've got 2 desktops, a laptop and my PS3 hooked up to my NAS. There hasn't been any issues in streaming audio and video to my PS3 but I'm not sure about Xbox 360. Have you tried looking into other NAS devices?
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Yes I have, but most other NAS devices are over $200, which is out of my price range. At that price, I might as well use my spare PC.
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Originally Posted by MegaHurtz
Wireless G or 100Mb wired should be just fine for streaming anything, up to 1080p.
Look at it this way, take a 1080p movie, which say on average is 8GB. Figure that it's 2 hours long, so 7200 seconds. That's a bit over 1MB/sec to stream it over the network. Even if my figures are conservative, I don't think you'd even be going over 1.5MB/s to stream 1080p. That might be a bit of strain on an 802.11g network, but it should still work just fine. Doing it over copper at 100MB will be no problem whatsoever. 720p files are about half the size, which is even easier on a network.
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Well, it seems like you're having no problems streaming 1080p content over Wireless "G". Mind taking a look at my other PC technical issue? I'm getting sluggish speeds streaming a regular divx file.
http://www.revscene.net/forums/showthread.php?t=561814