This upgrade license appears to entitle the user to media streaming facilities through the use of TwonkyMedia software - normally costing £27.43 for a Windows licence. BitTorrent functionality is provided by the Enhanced CTorrent Client, an open source project which hasn't been updated since 2008.
Setting up the BitTorrent client
Should Freecom really be charging you to use outdated open source software which lacks basic features present in all other modern Torrent clients? Probably not, but the more pressing concern is that it’s not just old, it’s potentially broken. Freecom has demonstrated to us that the client is functional on another device, but we were unable to load any Torrent files on our review unit.
Media Server configuration
On the Windows software side is the Freecom Network Storage Assistant, which allows the user to perform initial configuration tasks in one click, open the web interface, map remote drives and perform recovery tasks. The software also locates and displays the LAN IP and network path of any detected Freecom drives.
Before you go delving into mapping drives though, you must create accounts for everyone who wishes to access the device. This allows each folder in the drive root to be made accessible to only the desired user(s) and must be completed before mapping even the \\NetworkCentre\Public\ folder.
You have to create users before you can share anything
That’s right, you can’t map the drive root. Though this feature would be useful in the office environment - the user-base targeted by the Network Storage Centre - the Network Media Centre is aimed towards the home user who may find this very confusing.
COMMENTS
bassey , You dont have 1gig, crazy boy. :)
are you crazy bassey "how many homes do you know have gigabit ethernet " EVERY SINGLE ONE of the many people any respecting tech users build PC for people, thast who, you mean YOU dont, thats just silly when you can get a single 1gig PCi ethernet card for £4 and a 5 port 1 gig hub for £25, and 30 foot/10 meter generic old cat5a cableable of 1gig for many years for a few quid.
id like to see the HD blue ray file details you played on the xbox360, i dont beleave it or it a non standard H.264 encode as the xbox 360 cant play even an mp4 container with avc encoded cotent about 10Mbit/s bitrate....
provide the Full mediainfo data for this 8 gig HD file you claim plays over this devices ethernet without transcoding to a far lower spec AND actually plays smoothly on the xbox360.
Performance
I got a 10 meg hub, will this affect the performance?
I guess if it transfers at 14 megs a second I'll only lose a little performance.
Arp Arp Arp
Performance!
I got a 10 meg hub, will this affect the performance?
I guess if it transfers at 14 megs a second I'll only lose a little performance.
Arp Arp Arp
It's not that hard
Cabled gigabit network? That's me.
Ever since someone decided that ethernet could go over twisted pair instead of co-ax, you've been able to install the stuff and use for anything. I have TV aerial down one length, lots carrying ethernet and a few carrying phone or audio.
Upgrade from 10-baseT to 100-baseT to 1000-baseT just ment buying a new switch. Been able to watch streaming video since long before WiFi n, and still do. No glitches, even though the neighbours can barely download a webpage from the saturated airwaves around here!
Re: gigabit networks
<puts hand up> I have a home gigabit network. And that's a proper network with a 12-port switch, an ADSL router, a Wi-fi router, laptops, netbooks, Windows PC and Ubuntu mail and web servers. Why? Because I could and I had the option to go in and lay cables before they closed up the walls when the house was built. Allows me to stream large video files between the file server and the WDTV in the lounge.
