Because of the shape/construction of my property a wireless network is not possible to the bedrooms on the upper floor. I have successfully used Comtrend 9020 Powergrid adaptors to form a wired solution using the houses electrical wiring circuit. I have recently purchased a DS 411j DLNA enabled media server. Have located it in the hall on the ground floor and connected it to the ethernet outlets on my BT HomeHub router (see diagram attached). The set up does seem to work and I can (intermittently) stream media from the server to the TV/Blu ray player, and also transfer files between the server and PCs however, the speed is painfully slow (1.5MB/s).
I have no knowledge of networking and although I have spent a considerable time attempting to find advice on the internet but have found it very confusing and a bit of a minefield attempting to narrow down the problem. My suspicion is that there is a bottleneck at the router (due to my incorrect wiring or, and I need something to by-pass the obstruction (Ethernet switch ?). On looking at my network map (see attached) my main PC (Max-PC) is included in addition to a wireless laptop (Adam-PC) and obviously the BT homehub. The Synology DS411j Diskstation as well as my blu ray player and another PC are discovered but not included in the network map. I would have thought that they should appear directly on the map.
Specifications of my system are :-
Main PC Windows 7 Ultimate operating system with an NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbs Ethernet network adaptor.
Synology - DS411j NAS using DSM 3.2 operating system. (the network adaptor setting is 100,full Duplex,MTU 1500
I have no knowledge of networking and although I have spent a considerable time attempting to find advice on the internet but have found it very confusing and a bit of a minefield attempting to narrow down the problem. My suspicion is that there is a bottleneck at the router (due to my incorrect wiring or, and I need something to by-pass the obstruction (Ethernet switch ?). On looking at my network map (see attached) my main PC (Max-PC) is included in addition to a wireless laptop (Adam-PC) and obviously the BT homehub. The Synology DS411j Diskstation as well as my blu ray player and another PC are discovered but not included in the network map. I would have thought that they should appear directly on the map.
Specifications of my system are :-
Main PC Windows 7 Ultimate operating system with an NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbs Ethernet network adaptor.
Synology - DS411j NAS using DSM 3.2 operating system. (the network adaptor setting is 100,full Duplex,MTU 1500