I saw at ad for Win7 that showed a guy abroad watching movies on his laptop streaming from his home PC.

Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to set this up?

I would also like access to all my work PC files on my home laptop, what's the best way of setting this up?

I use "dropbox", it's like having a hard drive on the internet
It's installed on my android phone too so I can use files and stuff on there.

It's free and pretty much idiot-proof (I manage it)

Dropbox is pretty good but you only get 2Gb free storage so it is not really suited to video.

Thanks but not what I was after .... sure there is another way.

I forgot to add that I use a NAS drive and Netgear EVA8000 to stream movies to my TV. Obviously not an option for streaming direct to a laptop in another country but good for home use. Dropbox is good for storing files which you download - in theory you could use it for movies but the download times would be quite excessive.

i use an xtreamer to stream movie from my computer to my tv... very very good.
XTREAMER LINK

But streaming from a home computer, across the internet, to another computer somewhere in the world, is obviously reliant on a good upstream from the home computer etc.. which in this country is not very good, unless you have the 50mb virgin service, which has about 5mb up.

Dropbox is great for sharing and saving files into the cloud. You start off with 2gb and can increase this to about 8gb my inviting people, i'm up to 6gb.

Think you mean this

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/remote-media-streaming

Ah yes, that's it, cheers.

Streaming at home is no probs, got a LAN set up here already

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Originally posted by m8kwr
i use an xtreamer to stream movie from my computer to my tv... very very good.
XTREAMER LINK

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