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Jungle Disk: Windows Home Server Market “Not Large Enough” For Dedicated Product

Jungle Disk announce the decision to retire their dedicated Windows Home Server online backup product. But was anyone interested in the first place?

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IFA 2008: LG Announce N4B1 Network Attached Storage Device

Are NAS Devices about to hit the mainstream?

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Routers That Successfully Auto-Configure with Windows Home Server

Over on the WGS Forums, we’re compiling a master list of Routers that auto-configure with Windows Home Server using uPnP. You’ll probably know that Windows Home Server is meant to be able to configure remote access for your router if it supports uPnP, but in fact, this only seems to work with some routers. If you’re having [...]

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HP’s Top 10 Recommended Routers for Windows Home Server

As you know, over the past few weeks, we’ve been compiling a list of routers that auto-configure with Windows Home Server. In theory, the platform should be able to seamlessly configure all uPnP compatible routers for remote access to your home server through a configuration wizard - however, the execution of this is decidedly patchy. [...]

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FAQ: Windows Home Server and Port Forwarding

Next up in the series of FAQs from the We Got Served forums is a common issue with router configuration. Windows Home Server has the ability to automatically configure many routers to permit access to your home server when away from home, using a technology called uPnP. Unfortunately, not all routers are compatible with uPnP and [...]

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CES 2008: Windows Home Server vs Network Attached Storage - A New Battleground

Walking the show floors here at CES today, it was interesting to see the sheer number of networked devices on show from a multitude of manufacturers. Be it audio devices such as Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet, digital media receivers from D-Link and HP or wireless digital photo albums from Ceiva and Samsung, the Connected Home is a big theme here [...]

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Netgear Recalls XE103 Powerline Adaptor 220-240v

  If you’ve purchased any Netgear Powerline Networking Kit recently, and you’re outside the USA, read this carefully, then go here. This is for those that are using the Netgear XE103 Powerline adaptor. This is the Up to “85Mbps” adaptor, not the Powerline HD range. NETGEAR Voluntarily Recalls XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter Made for Europe and Other Countries Using [...]

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CES 2008: HP to Announce HP MediaSmart Receiver with Extender for Windows Media Center Support

  Next up in HP’s CES MediaSmart announcements is the HP MediaSmart Receiver - a Digital Media Receiver (DMR) which is fully compatible with the HP MediaSmart Server and includes Extender for Windows Media Center Support (or the v2 Extender you may have read about elsewhere). The DMR enables you to playback music, videos and photos from [...]

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Using a Digital Media Receiver With Windows Home Server

A while back, I mentioned that we were in the process of fully refurbishing our home, which we moved into back in May. We’re about two thirds of the way through the work, which has been a hard slog, but the work is really starting to pay off, with big chunks of the house now [...]

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