Home Theatre PC, do you have one? Here's mine...

dbzeag said:
The local USB connection to the Drobo is fine enough for the video, actually.
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Sure, but I want to host all of my media from my office PC on a large external drive to my other PCs/TV. I also want to have internet access on my TV so I can download shows from newsgroups and start watching them instantly. Wifi doesn't do those things very well.
 
dbzeag said:
How does MoCA work when you have cable internet connection already? What we would have to do is have a cable connection in the bedroom/server room that is connected to the modem, which is then connected to the router. Then there is a coax in the living room by the HTPC. How can you use MoCA to share that type of connection?
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You need a MoCA box on both ends. It can ride on the same wire that your cable is on. It uses the 1Ghz+ range, so it doesn't care about your cable TV. Apparently it can interfere with satellite though.

dbzeag said:
What's better, networking over power lines or coax cables?
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Hands down MoCA
 
LOL at this thread, I suppose since Ghost came clean I won't take a picture of the cable crimpers asking if they are a kitchen tool or something.
 
GHOST said:
Sure, but I want to host all of my media from my office PC on a large external drive to my other PCs/TV. I also want to have internet access on my TV so I can download shows from newsgroups and start watching them instantly. Wifi doesn't do those things very well.
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This is true. WHS as your one point data/internet access and a good network throughout tying to that would be ideal, I would imagine.

MoCA to whichever room had coax, powerline to all of the other and you are good to go.

Or wifi N, which should suffice to be honest.
 
fly said:
You need a MoCA box on both ends. It can ride on the same wire that your cable is on. It uses the 1Ghz+ range, so it doesn't care about your cable TV. Apparently it can interfere with satellite though.



Hands down MoCA
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I don't care about the TV signal, we never watch it. I care about piggybacking the internet signal coming into the unit, which I would imagine is also on the same band as MoCA.
 
dbzeag said:
I don't care about the TV signal, we never watch it. I care about piggybacking the internet signal coming into the unit, which I would imagine is also on the same band as MoCA.
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Packet headers will prevent any issues, if that's your worry.
 
My HTPC runs XP and SageTV against a WHS/SageTV Server backend.

Got 11TB's of storage in the server. Whacked it up with some Hauppauge HD-PVR's and DirecTV.

I'm planning on upgrading he HTPC to W7, still running Sage, but changing the video card out to an ATI card for full audio over HDMI.
 
btw, I'm currently using Windows Media Center, but I'll probably be moving over to Mediaportal this week. It's just too damn sexy and well developed not to...
 
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