I currently have the 1st gen WD HDTV in my living room attached to a seagate 750GB hard drive. It works great. Problem is - all of that info is only availabel on that TV.
What I am thinking about doing (if you all can convince that this is possible) is this.
WD live hub in living room with a WD live in each of the other rooms (3) for watching the content at my pleasure. If I understand from reading these forums - this is entirely possible and should be quite easy, right?
Questions I have are this.
1. Can I attach the 750 gb sea gate I currently have to the live hub and access those files from the other rooms, or is it only the material that is on the live hub?
2. (bear in mind, I don’t know a ton about networking).If I have ethernet run to wireless router (linksys b/g) and then run ethernet cable from router to hub and then ethernet cables from the router to all of the other tvs/wd live units - is it that easy? Do I just tell the wd live units at each tv to search the network to find the live hub and be done?
3. IF I do the wired route for the other rooms - can I also put a wireless adapter on the live hub to send content from my laptop to the hub for permanent storage?
4. If I have all of the tvs (live units) hard wired to the router to the hub - can I watch one movie from the hub on one remote tv while my son watches another movie from the hub on another remote tv.
What I am trying to do (figure out) is how to get the content from my laptop to the hub (preferably wirelessly) - then get that content from the hub to my other tvs (720p is fine as the only 1080p tv I have will be attached to the live hub) in the best way given my current set up/gear.
Do I have it sort of figured out, or am I way off in what I am thinking I can do on this?
Yep, it’s that easy. Yep, as long as you SHARE Your Hub, the Live’s should have no trouble finding it.
NO. It doesn’t work that way, nor does it need to. Since your HUB is Wired (from question 2), the laptop (even if wireless) should be able to connect to the Hub via your network, as long as you have WLAN access already.
Yes, within limits. The HUB’s performance isn’t terribly fast on the network. It’d be capable of about 30 to 40 mbits per second TOTAL out the network. So if your material is Standard Definition (less than 10 megabits per second) you can stream several shows simultaneous. But if it’s HIGH definition, you may only be able to do one at a time.
Unless you are just in LOVE with the HUB because of its other features, you might consider just using Live Plus’s at ALL of your TV’s, and save the money ($100 or so) of the HUB and use it toward a good NAS device, like a WD My Book Live.
Then ALL of the devices would stream from the My Book Live, which has considerably better performance.
If you were to install b-rad’s third-party firmware on your Gen1, it has limited support for some USB ethernet adaptors. You might want to consider buying one of the adaptors tested to work with the custom firmware The adaptor is probably cheaper than a Live Plus, and then you wouldn’t have to mothball the Gen1, and you’d have one less Live Plus to buy.
Obviously you wouldn’t have any access to the Live Plus features, like Blockbuster and Netflix, but I just thought I’d throw the suggestion out there, since you seem to be merrily using the Gen1 now.
On the other hand, it might not be worth the trouble to you to find a compatible adaptor and get it working.
