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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1461102" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>I do with most of mine - it costs extra though.</p><p></p><p>You have to purchase external drives or enclosures that have an ethernet connection.</p><p></p><p>It's a lot slower and I never tried it having them connected via USB (2) to a computer and then streaming to another computer. You're limited by that USB connection. It should be fast enough, but in real world, I don't think it'll always work so well.</p><p></p><p>If your external has a FW connection, you might give that a try to see if it helps. I have one raid external that uses FW800 that does a pretty decent job.</p><p></p><p>Other thing - if using wifi - make sure you're running an 'n' only network - running a combo 'n' 'g' network and have some 'g' device connected can slow the network down to a crawl - especially if you try streaming any HD content. I keep two wifi networks in my house for this with 'n' only that goes to any device that will stream from another device. All devices where I have my data stored are hard wired into the network or the one FW device I have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1461102, member: 24160"] I do with most of mine - it costs extra though. You have to purchase external drives or enclosures that have an ethernet connection. It's a lot slower and I never tried it having them connected via USB (2) to a computer and then streaming to another computer. You're limited by that USB connection. It should be fast enough, but in real world, I don't think it'll always work so well. If your external has a FW connection, you might give that a try to see if it helps. I have one raid external that uses FW800 that does a pretty decent job. Other thing - if using wifi - make sure you're running an 'n' only network - running a combo 'n' 'g' network and have some 'g' device connected can slow the network down to a crawl - especially if you try streaming any HD content. I keep two wifi networks in my house for this with 'n' only that goes to any device that will stream from another device. All devices where I have my data stored are hard wired into the network or the one FW device I have. [/QUOTE]
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