Hi guys
Firstly, apologies if this is a real newbie question...i have searched (honest!) but can't really get the straight answer I'm looking for.
I have the WDTV Live - currently it is connected to a USB External Hard Drive, but what I want to do is hook it up to my computer, which has about 4TB of storage - plenty to rip all my movies. I want to connect via an ethernet cable as I'm assured this is the fastest way to go (as opposed to wireless).
I tried connecting an ethernet cable to my router (an Apple BaseStation), which my computer is also attached to. I am able to transfer files between them, but it is all done over the internet (and therefore limited by my internet connection). Is there a way to hook it up to the network so that transfering/streaming files is done just on the network cable, therefore making it faster? Or to put it another way, if I were to remove the broadband cable from the router (but still have my PC and WDTV Live connected to the router) can you still stream to each other using the ethernet cable? If this is possible, what would I need to do on my PC to allow the connection to take place? (I just activated the 'sharing' option before, but as stated above, it's all just online and so it isn't very fast).
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a real newbie question.
Firstly, apologies if this is a real newbie question...i have searched (honest!) but can't really get the straight answer I'm looking for.
I have the WDTV Live - currently it is connected to a USB External Hard Drive, but what I want to do is hook it up to my computer, which has about 4TB of storage - plenty to rip all my movies. I want to connect via an ethernet cable as I'm assured this is the fastest way to go (as opposed to wireless).
I tried connecting an ethernet cable to my router (an Apple BaseStation), which my computer is also attached to. I am able to transfer files between them, but it is all done over the internet (and therefore limited by my internet connection). Is there a way to hook it up to the network so that transfering/streaming files is done just on the network cable, therefore making it faster? Or to put it another way, if I were to remove the broadband cable from the router (but still have my PC and WDTV Live connected to the router) can you still stream to each other using the ethernet cable? If this is possible, what would I need to do on my PC to allow the connection to take place? (I just activated the 'sharing' option before, but as stated above, it's all just online and so it isn't very fast).
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a real newbie question.