I forgot to post about it, but just before we left for vacaion I received and installed my Linksys Switch. This removed a wireless router I was using, pulled all the cat5e into one device and sped my network speeds up internally more than I can explain.

Basically I used to have all the ports on my ADSL router filled up, all the ports on two wireless Linksys routers full and a couple on our Vonage router as well.

Now I’ve got one cat5 running from the bridged ADSL router into the back of the Linksys WRT54GL and one from the WRT54GL to my new Linksys 16 port Switch and all others plugged into that. It helped remendosly to ditch all the routers and replace them with a simple switch.

Tomato Linux is still running the WRT54GL so I feel pretty good about that. So far the wireless router (WRT54GL) has not had a glitch and seems to do very well at handing out IP addresses to the wireless devices and watching the static IP addresses of all the connected devices.

We’ve had some issues with the Linksys Vonage router but trusty MagicJack is in the house so we’ve always got a state side number on the books.

Ever since I updated my network to include 3 routers my Wii has been grumpy. It continually included a few extra 0s after you input the settings. (I do not use DHCP).

You would enter the numbers

IP: 192.168.0.37

Router: 192.168.0.1

DNS: 192.168.0.1

and it would turn them into:

IP: 192.168.000.037

Router: 192.168.000.001

DNS: 192.168.000.001

This will not do! So finaly what I did was to NOT conferm settings and just press on until it made3 me test my settings. Low and behold they worked, but not if I confermed my settings first.

So a word to the wise when using a Wii with Wifi on a network with static IP addresses “Don’t conferm” your settings, just click the next arrow until you’ve looped through the settings and continue.

TTFN,

Justin

So; here are the screenshots of my MythBuntu computer in our living room. Each shot leads to the next. I navigated from start up to right before the movie starts (In this case it’s my favorite science type show “Cosmos”). I tried to screenshot the video, but it’all just blue.

Cheers;

Main Menu

Video Folders & Files Listing

Documenteries Folder

Scrolled Down for Cosmos

Inside Cosmos Folder

Episode 1 of Cosmos Series

I still haven’t figured out where you go to enter all that metadata (Runtime, Year, User etc etc) but I’m sure it is just in the menu somewhere. The next step from here is to simple hit the play button on the remote and watch all fo Carl Sagan’s goodness circa early – late 1980′s.

MythBuntu also does music, images, the web, weather, Movie Trailers and more. This is just the tip fo the iceburg for what this operating system can do.

Enjoy,

Justin