I'd personally recommend MoCA over powerline - powerline works great for some people, and horribly for others, with MoCA seems to work well for almost everyone.

Thanks a lot everyone, the posts are very helpful. We will go ahead with setting up a homegroup of some sort and forget the server for now. I appreciate all the advice greatly.

Jumbo frames have to be supported end to end. Otherwise all you end up doing in fragmenting more packets. It's also not much use on a 100 meg network. Don't bother with it.

Just found out that DDWRT's UPNP daemon has problems with it locking up and not responding. I have since bailed on DDWRT and gone to Tomato. Tons of free NVRAM now!

Interesting link, STC. It makes sense if you understand capacitive reactance. However, I would still be inclined to believe that you would get higher throughput if both of the powerline modems were connected to the same phase. The overall impedance of the physical copper wire between the two modems...

I've always had problems with Vista (32) Media Center and remote desktop, some rather bizarre, such as the background/screen saver changing after I attempt. I've rdc'd from XP, 7 and Mac 0SX machines. I've never tried accessing dvd on the MC box remotely.

You may want to post this on the WHS software forum.

Thanks Rob - now just need to wait for my contract to end...

Think the problem is firewall related, I turned off the firewall on the router and turned off the windows firewall on the WHS. I then connected to a remote PC outside of my LAN and used an Online WOL service to send a magic packet. The WHS woke up ok. I know the rules on both firewalls are setup...

Sorry I couldn't help... (missed the last part of the original post...)

Think I need to start building a new server soon, can anyone recommend a cheap rack mount server case that is decent.

Here in the US;

Norco rpc-4220 (20 drive hotswap + slim sata optical/2.5 interior)

Norco rpc-4224 (24 drive hotswap, no internal, no optical space)

They also have a 2U 8...

Thanks guys.
I don't have the £100 for Windows 7 and the machine wouldn't run it anyway. Besides, I much prefer the .dvr-ms to the .wtv files.

As for the MCE2005 being supported, the trouble is when you click the link it takes you to (rather than the or ) - this simply takes you to an upgrade page...

You can try some of the steps listed here -

Virtual PC is 32-bit - and won't support WHS 2011.

I installed Windows Server 2008 R2 and then put WHS 2011 into a Hyper-V machine. I also had a WHS V1 machine that I converted to Hyper-V and can still boot up my old WHS V1 server, if I need to get access to any of those backups. And I'm running a...

if you're going XBox, the base XBox is $150 at the Microsoft online store right now. $50 off.

Sounds like your talking about playing files from a remote network share (Pull) and not streaming (push)
Two different kettles of fishies.

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If YAC still isn't responding I would try using hyperterminal and see exactly what the modem is outputting. The AT+VCID=1 is the most important command for getting caller ID working. I took some screen shots to getting Hyperterminal setup to test your modem. I have also uploaded a copy of...

Thanks everyone, I figured it out. It will work on windows 7, but you have to have a metadata update for the Recorded TV Manager software. It's a free update if you have already purchased the software.

Here is the developers website:

I hope this helps someone else out too.

Well it's fixed now. For the time being at least. After disconnecting from the internet, I went into the device manager and uninstalled the display deleting the driver files as suggested. Afer a couple of reboots it finally forgot about the 460. Finally reported Standard VGA. Ran a couple of driver...

As far as switch connectivity it depends on the interface speeds of those devices and their potential to fill up a gigabit link as well as your current port density. If you have the extra ports in the Procurve than run the extra cables. If not just verify the total number of devices and the amount...

Thanks guys,

once we get our bb connection sorted, I'll go back to manually assigned ip addresses, and see if that helps, if not, I'll go for the network analysis to see if any bottlenecks are on my network.

Thanks
Tony

Windows Live Mesh works well with Windows 7 Home Premium (free download from MS) with one caveat. You can't operate a remote PC that's in Media Center full screen. As far as I know, you need to take the remote PC out of full screen (or close MC with a remote control first) then connect.
Other than...

Start with the basics. Make sure you have current drivers on both the machines for thier respective NIC cards. Connect the 2 machines via a crossover cable. Check the transfer speeds. If all checks out ok add the switch into the picture. If speeds are still slow start looking at flow control or...

Maybe the wizard is actually trying to contact the domain on 80 when verifying and since it can not it sends you to Go Daddy assuming that domain is dead.