Viewing movies on-line

[Daniel]

what do you have ?
i have a 5 year old pentium 4 cpu 3 ghz new motherboard and new ddr3 memory it works ok

is it good enought to run mediacenter

Currently?

I have the following

Core 2 Duo E8400 (wolfdale)
Asus P5K Premium motherboard
4 x 1gb Corsair DDR2 Dominator RAM
Sapphire HD4870 512mb

It's good but for gaming it's starting to get on a little bit. It will live on as a HTPC or a home server though and it's plenty good for that

One thing, you say your PC is 5 years old yet has DDR3, I doubt it tbh. At that age it would be ddr2.

[odykas]

I abandoned my mediacenter project long time ago as I'm not much into TV/Movies/Games.
So, it will be interesting to find out how you use them.
Maybe there are benefits I was unable to identity...

[schmenke]

Update:

I enabled the media extender and file sharing between my XBox and PC, via my home wi-fi. Although it was simple to set up, the idea of streaming content from the PC was quickly abandoned because it's slow as molasses.

I think I'll try Ody's suggestion

[Daniel]

via my home wi-fi.

There's your problem Well at least one of them, wi-fi is simply not reliable enough for streaming.

[Dave B]

You shouldn't have any problems on wireless-n and a channel unused by your neighbours.

[Daniel]

You shouldn't have any problems on wireless-n and a channel unused by your neighbours.

The problem with wireless is not necessarily bandwidth but it's the fact that it's not always consistent. At work we support a lot of homeworkers working through a Citrix Access Gateway which needs a constant (and I mean constant!!!!!!) connection and as soon as the connection even drops just a teensy weensy bit their Citrix connection goes and they're calling us up complaining that it's dropped. Whilst wireless can and does work for a lot of people it's always best if possible to CAT6 it or if you're not going to be sharing banddwidth between different devices then powerline networking works well.

[CNR]

Currently?

I have the following

Core 2 Duo E8400 (wolfdale)
Asus P5K Premium motherboard
4 x 1gb Corsair DDR2 Dominator RAM
Sapphire HD4870 512mb

It's good but for gaming it's starting to get on a little bit. It will live on as a HTPC or a home server though and it's plenty good for that

One thing, you say your PC is 5 years old yet has DDR3, I doubt it tbh. At that age it would be ddr2.

it is a new motherboard with ddr3 memory 3 months old
the cpu is a LGA775 Intel Pentium 4 processor
upgraded mother board and memory for $150.00