User talk:ThWal

Hi, welcome to ScreenPlay Pro HD! Thanks for your edit to the User talk:JCoug page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- JCoug (Talk) 21:59, 19 June 2009

Urgent Decision
It really comes down to suitability to a task. The ScreenPlay isn't a NAS device, but it has NAS capabilities. When I clocked 7-8 MB/s, it was under the best of situations. I had both the computer and the ScreenPlay directly connected to my router. As soon as I took either one wireless, the overhead immediately cost 50% of the speed. Now personally I only use the network for a couple of things: 1) Transferring from the internet to the screenplay and vice versa (which I only get 300 KB/s anyway due to my provider throttling the speed after the first 30 seconds) and 2) Making changes to the device via telnet. When I want to transfer videos, I use another 1 GB external drive. Actually, I have two of them, and that's just in case I ruin my screenplay and lose everything. Backups are good anyway. Transferring files via USB onto those other drives works much faster, and generally works better for me. Plus the drive is mounted read only (unless you apply the hotfix patch) so I know the screenplay won't mess up my USB drives. And I can transport the USB drives to other boxes (like a western digital, a screenplay TV link, a popcorn hour...whatever else I decide to get). Ultimately, my plan is to use XMBC or some other HTPC system and transfer all my USB drives to it so that all my devices, including my screenplay, can pull the movies over the network. So yeah, USB drives work really well for me. --JCoug 04:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)