Jasper
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 11:45 AM |
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Sharing docs on Win7 between computers
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?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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UncleFista
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 11:59 AM |
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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)
Tony Bond / UncleFista
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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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RazMan
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 12:27 PM |
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Dropbox is pretty good but you only get 2Gb free storage so it is not really suited to video.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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Jasper
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 01:07 PM |
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Thanks but not what I was after .... sure there is another way.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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RazMan
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 01:17 PM |
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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.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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m8kwr
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 01:52 PM |
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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.
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jabs
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 03:14 PM |
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Think you mean this
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/remote-media-streaming
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Jasper
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| posted on 1/12/10 at 04:29 PM |
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Ah yes, that's it, cheers.
Streaming at home is no probs, got a LAN set up here already
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 4/12/10 at 01:31 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by m8kwr
i use an xtreamer to stream movie from my computer to my tv... very very good.
XTREAMER LINK
Sorry to hijack but does anyone know of anything like this priced under about £40? Anything above this price and I could get a replacement remote and
use a usb memory stick on the upstairs tv instead.
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