So, after a week of struggling, fighting, and generally cursing computers in general, I’ve gotten my setup to work.

The original intent was to run Wireless (Draft-N) standard to stream my movies from my server in the office (which is less than 10 ft away).  That didn’t go so hot.  For whatever reason, despite the strong signal strength and high data transfer rates, my media files didn’t play worth a damn.  Well, the 1080 ones at least.  The 720 seemed to do ok.  I’m at a loss, because I’ve seen that people have been able to wirelessly stream HD content without the buffering every 10 seconds.  I’d be tempted to believe it was a failing of the Samba protocol, but it works fine over wired ethernet.  I’m stumped.  I gave up and did the “elegant” solution of running CAT-5 out to the living room.Continue reading