Tue 26 Feb 2008
Posted by mobile phone:
I wrote a few weeks ago about how we decided to try the netflix online service out. It worked wondefully the first time that we tried it with our new ClearWire service. But it seems that since then our download speeds have not been fast enough to support a streaming movie. Very annoying.
So I am currently near the airport in Portland Or, where I am going to be helping out with tech support for the OR bar exam and I got to my hotel and decided I would try the netflix again from here. The Radisson I am staying in offers free wifi so I crossed me fingers and gave it a shot. And it worked. I watched a documentry about scrabble players. It ran smooth with no issues.
We are going to be building a media server for the house soon. It would be really cool if we could use the netflix on that machine as well as getting the dvds.
Maybe if clearwire upgrades to wimax like they have been talking about their download speed will get better and it could work.
Ok going to bed now so I can be all bright and tech supporty. I am the Site Captain after all (woo hoo I have been waiting for so long for this momentus occaion).
Sleep. Now.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Yes, we can do it with Linux Media Center Edition (MCE).
http://www.linuxmce.org/