[ubuntu-uk] streaming content via wires!

[Rob Beard]

javadayaz wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Some of you may remember my post about streaming content from a ubuntu 
> pc to a media centre/xbox over an eternet wire a couple of months ago! 
> All of this in my new house
>  
> Well heres a quick update.
>  
> I was thinking of how best to get this done when it occurred to me 
> that when i get the virgin man to drill a whole to install the virgin 
> services (the internet upstairs, the tv box downstairs) the most 
> logical solution is that i ask him very nicely to drill another two 
> holes and at the same time run an ethernet wire through those. So one 
> ethernet clippy thing is upstairs and the other is downstairs. In the 
> living room. Then when i want to watch something all i have to do is 
> make sure its connected to my pc upstairs and im done. No wire, no hassle.
>  
> Simple.
>  
> What do you think?
> Javad
Might work.  They should supply a wireless router (or at least they did 
for me) which you will plug the cable modem into, then you you'll have 
about 4 ports free, one can be used by your PC and the other can be used 
by the XBOX/media device.  You can leave it connected, there is no need 
to mess around plugging it in and unplugging it.

Rob