Remote Media Streaming

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

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Hi guys/girls. I will try and make this as short as possible but I want to make sure I get my thoughts across so I am sorry if it drags out.

I am planning to move to Canada for a year in 2011 for a working holiday. Now I am a big media fan so I want to be able to access all my home data from Canada. I have quite a few questions on this.

I plan to buy a netbook (the Asus 1215n, unless anything else comes along I find will better suit my needs). So I plan to have all my media on my home PC & then stream it from the UK (where my home PC is) to my netbook in Canada via wifi/hardwire.

First of all will the netbook be able to handle this? Of course taking internet upload and download speed out of the equation. Will the netbook be able to playback 1080p video?

Secondly will I be able to control my home PC from my netbook? Say I want to set a torrent to download a file on my home PC to later stream to my netbook at a later date.

Thirdly will my home PC have to be on the whole time? Even when not streaming? If so this means that I will have to have the home PC on for a whole year and fingers crossed it not BSODing or power cutting etc? I highly doubt there is a way to turn the PC on without pushing the power button. Wake up from a sleep via LAN a possibility?

Also anything else you think I am missing out on? Thanks everyone.

James.
 
I would doubt that you could stream very well from your home server to a netbook 3000 miles away without having very good solid internet connections at both ends. It certainly won't stream 1080p over that distance, as 1080p struggles over 100mpbs home network at times.

You could easily remote into your home pc using your netbook using various options. (remote connection, logmein, teamviewer etc)

Best thing i could suggest is fill up a external harddrive/portal drive with all your media and take it with you??

Generally yes - your pc will have to be on for you to access it, you could save a little power by having the drives spin down etc.
 
If you're viewing the video on the netbook screen then there's no point in 1080p anyway, as the screen can't display that much detail. You can get media sw to sit on the server that transcodes into lower formats according to the connected device.

For powering up the PC you can shut it down remotely (or let the power save options kick in) and use WoL to get it back. WoL won't work however if the PC hasn't been shut down properly e.g. after a crash, or after a power cut. Many BIOSes allow the PC to be started daily/weekly at a time you set, which might give you some backup.

I think there are too many issues with your plan so as has already been said, take your media with you on a portable drive. Spend some money on online storage so you can easily remotely upload new content from the UK at leisure, for you to download at full speed in Canada.
 
Ha I cant believe I have been so stupid. It is obvious that it wont stream I don't know what I was thinking... I Have seen some new 1TB 2.5in external USB3.0 drives that I like the look of.

Also how would this netbook go about playing the following games?
As far as I can see it has a dual core atom and Nvidia ION. Obvious no where near a desktop or even laptop performance, but how would it fair in the following games (my steam list)

CS:Source
GMod
HL2: Deathmatch
L4D
L4D2
TF2
UT3: Black Edition
 
jrwagh333 said:
Ha I cant believe I have been so stupid. It is obvious that it wont stream I don't know what I was thinking... I Have seen some new 1TB 2.5in external USB3.0 drives that I like the look of.

Also how would this netbook go about playing the following games?
As far as I can see it has a dual core atom and Nvidia ION. Obvious no where near a desktop or even laptop performance, but how would it fair in the following games (my steam list)

CS:Source
GMod
HL2: Deathmatch
L4D
L4D2
TF2
UT3: Black Edition
Click to expand...

CS:S possibly just!- but the rest would have no chance on a netbook. I think you would struggle getting Steam to work correctly on a netbook!!!
With no dedicated gfx card you'll have no chance i would think!

For £430 or so that the one you mention (asus 1215n) you would probably be worth while getting a proper laptop to give you a chance at playing a few games

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-023-MS&groupid=959&catid=1828&subcat=
 
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