By Philip Churchill on December 24th, 2009
Integrate Multiple Devices with WHS
How do you integrate multiple Windows Media Center computers, Zunes, an XBox 360, and also a Windows Home Server?
Easy, and here’s a basic home network map
And everything syncs together too.
You can read more here.
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He is not alone when it comes to explaining router problems and alike, but when he mentioned remote access to multiple computers thruout the day , i had to role my eyes at what the electric bill looks like . i run 3 pc workstations 3 laptops 1win 7 ult mediacenter for movies and music, 1 kitchen pc for wifeepo and 1 bench pc. if i left all these on to allow remote access my electric bill would would show up as part of the gross domestic product report, sorry of subject but kinda my focus is revamping power supplies and sleep modes adjusting anything to lower almighty power bill
Well Welch, my power consumption is not that bad as none of the devices on my net map are on all of the time. The only computer that stays on all the time is the WHS and it is a low power WHS using a modern low wattage intel dual core Pentium. It only has a 250 watt cpu. All of the other systems on my home network are either shut off at night or go into sleep mode. Three of the systems, mine and both of my sons systems are gaming PC’s that each have a 600 watt PSU or larger. However they are not always on. The XBox is also always in the off position when not in use. So our power consumption is not all that bad.
By the way, I am the original writer of the the article.
RJ, on comment above you mean 250 watt psu not cpu.
That is the beauty of a WHS you can beauty of a home server it actually reduces any need to keep other devices on.
But I do want to say that there is one comparison when ti comes to Apple Vs Microsoft home technology that Apple has a better attitude, that is on family upgrades. Family friendliness on PRICE
WE have a WHS, a 360 three PC running Vista and three Macs. What is with running the W7 family pack upgrade for just a few weeks and in most cases days and allowing almost the entire stock to be grabbed by scalpers (the $150 family packs are almost $300 on ebay).
By announcing it would be limited number they gauranteed a profit by ebayers and made it easy to buy out entire stock from online retailers in 100 or 1000 piece orders!
I wnt down to my local staples the day of the announcement to get a copy and they told em one guy had bought all 75 of the stores copies.
Microsoft would KILL the profit of these scalpers just by bringing the program back!
If you don’t have a kid in a participating k-12 and are not currently in college a family has to pony up $330 (110×3)for something everyone else would pay $90 for ($30×3). It sends people over to ebay where you quickly learn a gray market technet license is only $30 — or if you are a family you may have an interest in spending the couple of hours in figuring out the slipstream.
Doesn’t Microsoft know they are ENABLING scalpers and illegal sellers of technet licenses with its family UNFRIENDLY ending of the family packs for Windows 7! At least Apple is not that dumb.