2009-04-16, 18:50
We just bought a house, and I'm trying to figure out how I want to network everything. I would love to have ethernet ports in all the rooms, but I think it's a little bit too much for me.
I have my desktop, which has all of my videos on it. I have my HTPC in the living room, hooked up to the TV. I have a crappy Wireless-G router (the Linksys WRT54G -- one of the newer ones with little memory), but I'm looking at upgrading to N. If I had an N router and N wireless adapters (except for my laptop's G), would I be able to:
at the same time? I know that an N router should be able to do that, but I'd hate to assume it and end up having to reset it a lot.
The main question I have is about software, though -- I'm sure a lot of you have a similar setup. How do you mount the networked media on your HTPC? Should I use something like sshfs, or is there a better option?
Thanks a ton!
I have my desktop, which has all of my videos on it. I have my HTPC in the living room, hooked up to the TV. I have a crappy Wireless-G router (the Linksys WRT54G -- one of the newer ones with little memory), but I'm looking at upgrading to N. If I had an N router and N wireless adapters (except for my laptop's G), would I be able to:
- stream from my desktop to my HTPC,
- download things to my desktop (like...Ubuntu torrents), and
- surf the web on my laptop
at the same time? I know that an N router should be able to do that, but I'd hate to assume it and end up having to reset it a lot.
The main question I have is about software, though -- I'm sure a lot of you have a similar setup. How do you mount the networked media on your HTPC? Should I use something like sshfs, or is there a better option?
Thanks a ton!