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Trying to justify upgrading your old Apple TV? I've been playing with a power usage monitors and have discovered that the biggest user of power whilst on "standby" in my house is the apple TV @ 20watts. With electricity at approx 20p per KWh, that works out at £35 per year...

Does using the dual band function of the Airport Extreme slow it down, or do the wireless devices using N on your network still work at full speed?

I have a Linkstation GL series. Unfortunately, the link you gave me is a for a CH/CL Linkstation - not that you could have known! However, i did find this: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Time_Machine_%26_Time_Capsule_support_on_your_LinkStation which i will have a go at when i've got a...

Thanks for the advise icemanjc. I had tried and failed to set up time machine on my NAS (Buffalo Linkstation), and i obviously came to the conclusion too quickly that Apple had restricted the ability to use timemachine over the network to their devises only... i shall give it another go! The...

I currently have a wireless G network, used by a NAT drive (which has an additional USB drive plugged into it), an iPod Touch, an Airport Express, a MacBook Pro and an AppleTV. Both the AppleTV and the MacBook Pro are capable of 802.11N, and it would be advantageous to use N because of syncing...

I am trying to connect to my parents PC (running windows vista and RealVNC) from my MBP (running 10.4 and Chicken of the VNC). I can successfully connect to the PC using the Java viewer, however, the problem with doing it this way is that the PC screen is bigger than my MBP screen and so i...

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realise that there was a x8 difference between megabits and megabytes.

My MBP hooks up wirelessly to my router (Netgear dg834g), they are in the same room about 12 ft apart and according to AirStatz and the icon at the top right of my MBP screen; i have a perfect signal. However, i only get a 2Mbit/s transfer rate to a external hard disk (Buffalo Linkstation)...

I'm not IT savvy enough to be able to tell you what the short comings of XFS might be. However, until i recently transferred it to the Drivestation, i did have my iTunes library on the Linkstation Pro and did not experience any problems. I have also backed up all my documents, photos, and...

I can understand why Seagate might have closed the Maxtor website down, but from a customer service point it is inexcusable. I went for the Buffalo Linkstation Pro (320gb) as my NAS. I would recommend it on the grounds that it was fairly straight forward to set up, it's quiet, the power...

I have a MacBook Pro, but due to the size of the hard disk i have half my iTunes library on my MBP (music) and half my iTunes library on my NAS (movies). The NAS is connected to my wireless router and a "toggle" between the iTunes libraries using the Option key when loading. From what i've...

Has anyone managed to use a Canon iP2500 wirelessly by plugging it into their Airport Express station? I'm thinking of buying an iP2500 (it's cheap) but can't find any reference to it working with Airport Express. Thanks.

I am trying to play mp4 films stored on my NAS (Buffalo Linkstation Pro) on my MacBook Pro using Quicktime. 99% of the time this works without any problems. However, occasionally the playback jitters. The films are about 600Mb and last about 70 minutes. I can copy the whole file from my NAS...

Thanks for the Nvu tip, i hadn't heard of it before but it looks good. I'll give it a try. I only started using iWeb because it is already installed on my mac and therefore was the most natural place to start. Using a text editor is something i had thought of, but it seemed so silly that iWeb...

I want to insert a page into my website that shows a live "streaming" webcam. As far as i can work out, this feature is not supported by iWeb. However, i have the "raw" html that i need to create the page. Is there a way in iWeb to enter html yourself, rather than letting the application do all...

I did look at the QNAP, but it costs around 175 pounds without a hard disk, which is about he same cost as the Buffallo Linkstation Pro with a 300gb disk included. I also considered the option of buying an old PowerMac G4, having seen them go cheaply on eBay, but as Eric2006 points...

I have a MacBook Pro and i'm running low on disk space... I've been looking at: Western Digital NetCenter Maxtor Shared Storage II Buffalo Linkstation Pro Does anyone have any experiences with the above (or others) and a Mac? For the vast majority of the time i'm going to be...

I regularly connect to 2 different wireless networks. One at my parents house and one at my own house. Both use WEP. I have no problems connecting to the wireless network at my house, and until recently had no problems connecting to my parents network either. However, i now find that i...

Bridlad, In the space for keys 1-4 do you see a mixture of randam letters and numbers? It will be either 10 or 26 digits. It is known as the hexidecimal key because it uses only the numbers 1 to 9 and letters A to F. You need to type this "hexidecimal key" into your Mac. If it is 10 digits...

When typing in the WEP key (the hexidecimal code) you need to add the $ sign at the beginning. For example, if your windows machine uses the key 5330DACC16, you need to enter $5330DACC16 on your Mac. I hope this helps!