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Exact same setup at my house. Although my Kingston drive is for the O.S. and apps only. I have a 250GB HDD for recording TV that dumps the recordings to my WHS 2011.

I also run another Kingston in another PC and then in my gaming box I have two Vertexes running in Raid 0. I’ve never had a problem with any of them. 

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The Linksys E4200 I’m not a big fan of but at the same time there aren’t any consumer routers I really like.  The few people I know with a Linksys E4200 are happy with them.

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Can you recommend an alternative to the Linksys. I was looking at that same model since it has a second guest wireless band.

I lways had issues with bluray stuttering on my realtek nics and then I moved to an intel and everything is good now. I just got the one with the most reviews from NewEgg.

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That gives me a couple of ideas to start with for reprogramming the remote. 

1. When I enter the activity send a close command to the MC and then a start

2. Turn off the AVR then turn back on and choose the right input. 

Because I know if I fiddle enough in the blind with the MC interface it will come back up. Now back in the day with my AMD 690G board I had to program a function to run HDMIon. 

 

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I had this issue a long time ago and a new mother board fixed it. But now that am sharing a Ceton tuner to the box the issue came back. My fix is to select live tv and then change the channel, and wait. Ceton should build the HDMIon logic into its driver. I’ll have to tinker with the Logitech events to maybe shutdown the Media Center app and restart it.

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At least when using Xbox 360 as an extender, there is no issue. Back when I used the 360, it would WOL the PC without issue.

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I think the 360 is waking it up fine. I just need to wait a minute for the tuners to link up or something. I have 3 ceton tuners and 4 hdhr tuners mapped to the HTPC in my living room and 1 of the Ceton tuners mapped to my office pc so I can tweak the guide and then make changes to the HTPC’s guide when I get it figured out. I wish their was a simple way for media center to scan all the channels and build its own list of channels it actually receives. But even then I’d probably have to cut out all the duplicates. After the initial setup my HTPC guide was setup for 504 channels, after removing dupes and pay channels I don’t receive I think I’m down to about 80. 

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I think Sopranos was good until around the 4th season. About the time Michael and the other gangster lost the Russian in the woods.

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Depending on the size of the hole could you use one of the mounting holes for the IR receiver. 

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A tutorial on that app would be great. I’m sure I could figure it out but I’d probably have a lot of trial and error and error and…. I just left arrow over to the channel, press info and disable the SD channels. After a few times your fingers know what to do and you can whip through the guide pretty quick. OR go through guide settings and do it if you know for sure what to remove.

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That sounds like the way to go. I’ll put the Ceton into my WHS 2011 box and allocate 2 Ceton tuners and 2 HDHomerun tuners to my main HTPC. Then 1 Ceton and 1 HDHR to each of my other PCs. 

I’ll probably upgrade the NIC in my Server to an Intel gigabit once I see what slots I have left. 

Can I install the Ceton Tuner without the CC so when I get the CC I can just slide it in?

 

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I’m running the previous version of that board (without USB3) with a Kingston V series 60 SSD for the OS and apps and an old 250 Seagate drive and a 65 watt CPU.

The WHS addin pulls the recorded TV off the 250 and moves it to the server. 

I use the stock heatsink and fan and just the PSU fan to cool it and I only hear it when it is time to blow out the dust. 

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I’ve had issues with WD Green Drives when dealing with several streams. But my drives are a couple years older so perhaps the newer ones with the 64mb cache handle it better.

If you are going to be gaming on the HTPC you might check out AMD’s latest Fusion systems or expect to be adding a discrete card to your setup in the future. 1080P is a lot to ask for from integrated graphics when it comes to gaming. I have the 880G chipset and Dirt 2 ran well but I did have to dial the settings down a bit. 

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Love the USB charging power plug.  I have them all over the house now.

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That’s good to hear. I can stop ordering 10ft micro USB cables and use the short ones the phone makers keep shipping.

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I’m a big fan of firefold.com and keystone jacks. I put in six port plates so I can add whatever I need later. 

I also plan on putting in a few of these in key places.

http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=458

 

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I wonder how I get to those other accounts. My account was MeesterRip and somehow it got flipped to PAPutzback. IS there an option in the control panel to deactivate an account?

 

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Definitely yes. As far as I know I don’t think there is a wireless network that could handle streaming a BluRay rip. Even if it could that would probably be all it could handle at one time. Between network tuners, Netflix streaming and XBOX gaming my network gets hit pretty hard. I’d use Cat6 throughout.

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