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Anyone using Plex like NOD and I? The new myplex is awesome. All my media accessible on the iPhone over 3g. Really easy to setup.

Can't get to zumocast website, so don't really know about it. Just know that myplex is simple. D/L media server to your computer with media. It gets all the metadata automatically. Then installed the client on whatever computers you want (HDTV, laptop, iPhone, android, Samsung TVs, etc) and start streaming any of your media automatically. The one the HDTV looks awesome with fan art, thumbnails, episode descriptions, etc

You can also share your media with anyone you want that has a Plex Client. You can queue websites with video so you can watch it anywhere (can watch a flash video on iPhone)

I'm probably not explaining it very well. Check out the link.

yea, i know you could do it, but this is way simpler. You are right, bugs still there, it just got released a few days ago. I'm having some issues now with publishing my server after it working all last night.

I saw one when they first came out. Looked awesome playing a blu-ray, but I'm skeptical that it's worth the extra money over a (larger) Samsung/Panasonic plasma.

I know these power line network adapters have been discussed before but I can't find it...

Just wondering what peoples experiences have been with these? My wireless signal isn't great in my basement and I'm trying to decide on a repeater (or whatever they're called) or one of the power line dealies...?

I hope I'm not talking over everbodys head with all these technical terms.

Started my own thread asking the same question but probably should have directed it here...has anyone used the Chromebook at all? I am thinking of purchasing one and keeping my Mac just in case I need to do something non-Internet related on it, but I really don't do much else since I have a work computer that I do my work stuff on.

It depends entirely on how good/old your wiring is.

I tried using them once and the throughput was abysmal (as in 50%-as-fast-as-wireless-G-streaming abysmal), but it depends on your house.

I use MoCA (multimedia over coax) with adapters like the ones linked below. The good thing is that different brands are interoperable b/c it's one fixed standard.

I can stream lossless Blu-ray rips using them.

The biggest downside (beside price, of course) is that, if there is a signal booster between the nodes, they won't work. Also, doesn't work w/ satellite.

And yes -- you can still have cable and use this at the same time.

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This leads me to believe that they are different LANs. Connect to one at a time, pull up a DOS prompt and type ipconfig.

Let us know what you get.

I don't think there's anything you can do at the application level. If the resources on one network are all in one IP subnet range, and the resources on the other network are in another range, you can add routing rules to your computer. I'd have to look up how to do that.

Here's how networking works. Let's say your computer has two IP addresses, 192.168.0.5 (wired) and 192.168.1.5 (wireless). Assume both subnet masks are 255.255.255.0. What this means is that anything with IP address 192.168.0.x is on the same local network (subnet) as your wired network, and anything with IP address of 192.168.1.x is on the same subnet as your wireless address. If you try to access anything that has an IP address of 192.168.0.x, your computer is smart enough to know to route that traffic through the wired card, because they're on the same subnet, and same with 192.168.1.x addresses and your wireless card. Any connection attempt to an IP address that's not on one of your local subnets gets routed through a gateway. The default gateway is determined (by default) by the priorities your network cards have in some obscure control panel window.

However, you have some control over the routing tables on your system. Let's say that you know for sure that there are some machines with IP address 192.168.2.x that you can only access through the wired card, and some machines with IP address 192.168.3.x that you can only access through the wireless card. Neither of these IP ranges are in your local subnet, so normally they'd be routed through the default gateway. Depending on which of your cards has the priority, you may or may not have access to those servers. However, you can add entries into your routing table to tell your machine to route traffic bound for specific IP ranges through a specific gateway.

So what you need is first a print out of "ipconfig /all", and then you need to get IP addresses of which machines you're trying to connect to, and on which network card you want to connect to them through.

If you haven't tried this yet...

Unplug the router and turn off the laptop. Count to 15 (hey, it is just what DirectTV always to me to do when when my satellite didn't work).

Plug the router back in and let it re-boot. Once rebooted, turn laptop back on and see if you can connect to the network.

They're handing out addresses from both the Verizon dsl router and the Windows 2003 server in the same subnet? There's your problem. Because both networks are set to the same subnet, your PC assumes that it can get to network resources using either network interface, so it uses the one that's listed as the higher priority.

I don't think there's a way around this besides to have your IT guys have the two networks give out IP addresses in different subnets.

Another option is to change the network priority as needed. For example, you need to access something on the wireless network, set that one as the higher priority. And vice versa. But you may lose existing connections when you do this, so you might as well just disconnect from one network when needed.

I'm not an IT expert, I'm just a software developer. So the above information may not be right. But I think it is.