Re: Newbie needs Network / media centre solution!

["Andy Whitfield" <andywhitfield2002@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
If you need any UPSs give me a shout!
Thx
Andy the UPS Man.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stefan Gavin <stefangavin@...> wrote:
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> Hi Guys, I'm after some advice if possible, I am not that=20
technical so bare with me=85
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> Current Home Audio & PC set-up (Recently sold all my THX 7.1=20
system)
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> Desktop Machine (High Spec CAD & Graphics machine)
> 2 X laptop's / Notebooks
> Recently completed media Centre PC Blu-Ray etc
> Roksan Kandy L3 amplifier
> Spendor S6 floorstanding speakers
> Panasonic Viera 42" 1080P
> Samsung 32" 1080P (Bedroom)
> Plus more
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> Media Centre is in living room connected to 42" 1080P set via
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and seems to be running ok minus about 100 niggling problems. I have=20
a separate media drive in here which contains a back-up of all my=20
music, videos and pics from my desktop machine. (Not Ideal) I like=20
the files stored locally here so they can be accessed quickly, and=20
so my movies run smoothly etc.
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> Desktop machine in the study also with separate 1TB dive contains=20
all my media, this drive is where I edit my MP3 tags etc and=20
download my movies etc to. I then back it up over a standard=20
wireless network to my media centre. I'm getting around 2-4MB/s=20
which again is not ideal.
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> I recently sent back a Synology DS108J which also was only giving=20
me around 4-5MB/s transfer speed for backing up my files, which was=20
not acceptable. I later find out this is common! I was expecting=20
40MB/s plus.=20
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> Ideally what I would like is for everything I own digitally stored=20
on a large NAS =96 high speed Gigabit or whatever and accessible from=20
any machine at high speeds, this can be done wired through Gigabit I=20
believe but not wirelessly. I need it to do it wirelessly because my=20
media centre is downstairs. I already have a wireless N card in my=20
media centre and have been looking at wireless N routers with full=20
gigabit connectivity, I am not 100% sure though that this will work=20
as I need it to.
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> However to play my HD rips or MKV files smoothly I figure I need a=20
constant data transfer speed of 20 MB/s which would also make the=20
network more usable for transferring files. This would enable me to=20
store everything on a large NAS with RAID or mirroring technology=20
for back up =96 this would then be accessible by any machine meaning I=20
could play HD content on any TV in house, but most importantly on my=20
Viera through my media centre.=20
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> I am probably completely going wrong here so please anybody put me=20
right, but my understanding is that Blu-Ray has a maximum bitrate of=20
48 Mbps for both video and audio =96 so if my network could run faster=20
than this then I could essentially play Blu-Ray discs over the=20
network (Not that I want to) MKV files bitrate is up to around=20
10Mbps so providing I can get a faster speed than this I could play=20
most of my HD compressed films? This is my logic anyway=85
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> I initially looked into home plug or Ethernet over powerline=20
systems, which sounded great at first 200 MB/s =96 perfect I though=20
for playing HD which it says on the tin, only to later find out that=20
the connection on the home plug is standard 10/100 cat5 which made=20
me sceptical, and quite rightly so as I now believe I would be lucky=20
to get anymore than 6MB/s over this type of system.
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> So back to Wireless N and gigabit systems possibly.
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> Any help here would be very much appreciated????
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> Sorry for the length of my message=85.
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> Stefan Gavin
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> (M)   07737 753645
> (E)     stefangavin@...
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