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  1. J

    Home networking planning advice, please.

    I was thinking about that Jesse. It would take some discussion with my father deciding where to put APs. I'd also like to keep it as maintenance free as possible for them. My parents are the type of people that call me when the cable box is on but the TV is not and they can't figure out why the...
  2. J

    Home networking planning advice, please.

    Thanks T, I stumbled upon that article series some time ago and simply forgotten it. I'll give it another read through this week. I still have another 4 weeks working this summer job and won't be in my home state. Just trying to think through what we need/want and how to accomplish it. I'm...
  3. J

    Home networking planning advice, please.

    I have 1,000ft of Cat5e plenum cable given to me by an electrician I worked with this summer. My father would like to use it in his home. The problems more or less are the house size, extending wireless access, and Comcast's existing equipment. I know what hardware I will need for the wiring...
  4. J

    NAS for streaming HD video to more than 1 PC simultaneously

    HDClown, that makes sense. I did that same math before, and like you said it seems most any 4-bay NAS I look at would suffice. If those read numbers are sustained then I agree there should be no problem. I'll probably just go for the DS410j and see how it handles. Thanks for taking the time to...
  5. J

    NAS for streaming HD video to more than 1 PC simultaneously

    I'll look into that belawrence. I've never built a PC from scratch before. It's not that I don't think I could do it, but that would add more time and trial and error to the process. Keeping with that idea, I did look into UnRaid some time ago. In the Plex Forum and elsewhere, a lot of people...
  6. J

    NAS for streaming HD video to more than 1 PC simultaneously

    I'm starting a home network. The basic components are in no particular order... + Linksys WRT610N + NetGear GS608 Switch + Cat6 wiring throughout apartment + Mac Mini with Plex connected to HDTV + Macbook Pro w/ 2TB external HDD (mine) + Dell Inspirion 15.4" running Vista with XBMC...
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