WDTV Question regarding networking

Bry · 10 Jun 2010 at 16:46

A friend of mine is looking at getting one of these as it just falls within his budget.

His current setup is the rotuer downstairs with his pc upstairs connecting via wireless.

His tv is also in his bedroom.

What he would like is to connect the WDTV straight to his computer to play the media files off of it?

I am assuming a cross over cat5e cable from the pc to the wdtv would work? is there a way to set a static ip on the wdtv? (it would be reserved focoruse in the router). What would you set the gateway ip to would it be the computer its plugged into or the router?

probedb · 10 Jun 2010 at 20:54

Just crossover cable and static IP on the WDTV Live. I always set the gateway to the IP of the other computer when connecting two directly. Not sure how it'll work with updates though?

iamtheoneneo · 11 Jun 2010 at 14:33

how to make a simple thing complicated lol....just plug the network cable in and job done. dont need to mess about with the geek stuff to be fair.

probedb · 11 Jun 2010 at 15:16

iamtheoneneo said:
how to make a simple thing complicated lol....just plug the network cable in and job done. dont need to mess about with the geek stuff to be fair.

?? What? He wants to connect it *directly* to his PC not to a network.

iamtheoneneo · 11 Jun 2010 at 16:35

probedb said:
?? What? He wants to connect it *directly* to his PC not to a network.

yet in doing so he is creating a network....whether hes doing that via a router or not is irrelivant. The OS will still give the box a ip address and it will be good to use.

Bry · 11 Jun 2010 at 17:23

Cheers guys bit uncertain as to how it would just work but thanks anyway

Destination · 11 Jun 2010 at 18:34

My WDTV is plugged straight into my router, the other 2 pc are plugged straight inot the router, and the eternet cable modem is plugged directly into teh router.
All access the net for each others sharing, and updates just fine.
Don't crossover cable anything, plug it in downstairs beside the TV straight into the router.

Straight cable, and then setup a sharing folder for network folder, or setup media streaming to run the files directly.

I must admit mine does have some network share issues, which I have thus far been unable to locate the cause of, but most of them time everything runs sweetly.

Bry · 11 Jun 2010 at 18:38

Thanks for that but I can not plug the wdtv into the router as It is downstairs and the tv and pc is upstairs as I said in my first post. As such I must plug it directly into the pc

Destination · 11 Jun 2010 at 18:41

ah i am being silly
i read it the other way round

why can't he just use an output from the PC directly to his TV? one of the other outputs on his vid card or a switchover cable? then runs the files directly on his tv from his pc?

Hank_Marvin · 23 Jun 2010 at 12:33

Hikari Kisugi said:
ah i am being silly
i read it the other way round

why can't he just use an output from the PC directly to his TV? one of the other outputs on his vid card or a switchover cable? then runs the files directly on his tv from his pc?

lol, na that would work, makes sense to me from what op has said.

snow patrol · 23 Jun 2010 at 18:40

from my experience, and this was probably just some random freakish thing, but i shall chime in any way:

wdtv networked straight to PC = stuttering in high bit rate mkv files after like 20 mins or so....

but...when i put the wdtv to a router and then to the pc, the stuttering was gone