Posts by ade1970

  • Which NAS 2 buy for home use?

    Hi, I use a QNAP HS-251 2GB SILENTNAS with 2 x 4TB HDD, completely fanless & silent, handy apps & raid configuration mirror's discs automatically, it's a breeze to use and set up for file sharing, multimedia and music server as I use with the built in TWONKY. As others have said it also has PLEX built in, but I've not used that side of it. I used to have a Netgear 2 bay server with fan until my ex asked why there was a fridge in my lounge! The noise /fanless solution was my deciding factor...

  • Twin tuner dvb-c e2 receiver with/without pluggable tuners..any suggestions pls?

    Budget wise up to £200 including a hdd, but must have a single input (described as an internal rf power fix?) for the second tuner to work built in. I know this is available on my duo2 as a hybrid pluggable dvb-c twin dual tuner module, so it must be available for other receivers, be it as a built in tuner version or plugabble, i dont mind as sorting for an elderly friend, no clones and only from sponsors please, openvix support all the way ;-)
    Many thanks.



    edit.. seen that a vu solo se v2 is compatble with these dvb-c dual twin tuners, anyone have any exp?

  • wireless lan problems

    sorted!...the virgin hub needed a full reboot as dhcp just wasnt dishing out the ip addys...funny how of all the wifi things, streamers, 2 tv's, laptops etc, that it was just the vu duo2 that would not connect...anyways thx for looking..hope this helps someone else! :)

  • wireless lan problems

    so moved house and switched from wired to wireless. Friend in same house let me use their wifi via VM, all was running fine till last week then did a restart for something and lost server connection. started 2.30, moved to 2.09 and 2.21 i'm going to try next. All appear as red light instead of green under blue button-caminfo-servers .....i have tried manually configuring with the ssid and wpa key, set to dhcp and the nameserver as 192.168.0.1 .......as a precaution, i tried the wireless with my giffgaff access point and bingo, it worked, wireless working again, still not connecting to VM wifi but connecting to giffgaff/o2 and for the purposes of everything else so far so good...but alas...still no connection to server...light is red and have read that the o2/giffgaff public ip address has to be converted from nat to pat! ....so you see, one very fried and frustrated brain!!
    any help on networking, pointers, ways around the o2/giffgaff server public problem best as i have unlimited...but really still puzzled also at the virginMedia wifi ..i did notice the rate had dropped from like 75 mbps to 22.5 mbps..does that mean anything??? :20_003:
    ps friend not pc friendly, was thinking maybe try a homeplug on the virgin wifi...