stringfellow,

Very informative thread here and really appreciate your sharing of the amazing apple network setup.

My apple journey started about a year ago and still very new is this apple world. I'm also in the process of setting an apple network at home. Not as big scale as yours, but just want to achieve a basic home wireless network setup to enable sharing of files, music, photos, printing, and internet access.

I've the following devices at the moment:
1. iMAC
2. one PC running on Windows XP
3. a Canon wireless printer
4. Dlink 323 NAS (running on RAID 1)
5. Buffalo 2 in one wireless modem router

Right now what I really want to achieve is to make the printer available to all the PCs. I have a company laptop (Wins XP) too. I've no problem with the PC and laptop to print but not the Mac, eventhough I've installed the printer apps.

Also, I want wireless connection to my printer. Wiithout reading in detail, I bought the Airport Express, thinking it would help to solve the wireless connection between my Mac and the printer. I was wrong to find out that I need to use the USB connection for the Airport Express and printer before it can be shared to other PCs in the network. Is there any other way to make a truly wireless connection?

I'm also trying to get TimeMachine to backup directly into my Dlink NAS, would TimeCapsule able to bridge this gap? I understand that you are using a NAS purely for storage purposes and running on RAID 5 for failure protection. I'm a bit more greedy and wanting to use my NAS for backup and storage purposes.

Once I have a final solution on the printing and file storage and sharing, my next project would to the AppleTV.

Thanks for you advice in advance.

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Added on October 4, 2010, 9:01 pmAfter some further readings and testing, it is confirmed that the Airport Express cannot connect to non-apple modems wirelessly. Only through wired connection.

With my current equipments, the only way to setup print sharing is to connect the Airport Express to my modem via the Ethernet connection. Then connect the printer to the Airport Express via a USB cable. The problem is the bookshelf that I place my modem dont have enough room to place my printer.

This post has been edited by Ah_Wah: Oct 4 2010, 09:01 PM

I'm planning to buy the new Apple TV from US. Before that, I wanne know, can this New Apple TV play those DVD movie we download from BT / eMule? How we gonna do it? Thx!!

@Ah_Wah

Looks like you've self-diagnosed your own problems. Truthfully, I know very little on wireless printing, I have no printers at home.

@aftersix

You need to do video conversion into formats recognizable by the iTunes. Anything iTunes recognizes, the Apple TV plays.

forget it
it's just not our thing
no movie and tv series rental from malaysia
even those it does, i bet you wont

unless you crack it for something, RMB internal memory is just 8GB

Reading comprehension fail! He is not talking about rentals, he's talking abut movies downloaded from torrents. There are other uses of AppleTV than just movies and tv series rentals. I rip my own movies into my iTunes library and stream it via the AppleTVs at home, and that involves no movie or TV show rentals from within iTunes.

I would suggest before you comment on something, to read up on the matters you're commenting on to avoid making yourself look silly.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 18 2010, 05:42 AM

anybody got hold of the new apple tv yet? wonder the voltage usage ok with msia or not

Yes! This is the answer I'm looking for. I'm asking my sister to buy it right away! Thanks yo!

LOL.... cRazYee, sorry to make you misunderstand what I'm saying. stringfellow just don't mad at cRazYee okiez? haha...

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Added on October 18, 2010, 1:20 pmI have a Plan too.

1. Gadgets I already got:
• NAS Synology DS411+ with 4 x 2TB Caviar Green WD HDDs configuring with Raid 10, totalling 4TB.
• Belkin N Wireless Router
• D-Link DES-1016D 16-Port 10/100Mbps Unmanaged Switch

2. "Coming Soon" Gadgets
• Unifi VIP20 - setting up by this week.
- Fiberhome (VDSL)
- Dlink DIR-615 G2 (as VLAN bridge)
- Set-top-box (IPTV)
• New Apply TV

So that I can download all kind of movie using the fastest network and store them inside my Synology NAS, when I wanne watch a movie, just pull them out and stream to my living room LCD via Apple TV anytime I wanted. It's that cool~?! Haha...

This post has been edited by aftersix: Oct 18 2010, 01:20 PM

Updating my Apple TV to 4.1 now, 52 minutes to finish. Cant wait to try out AirPlay and VoiceOver on the new Apple TV, streaming content from iPad as well!

Updated and features explored, to me, the biggest addition is multitasking on the iPad paired with AirPlay on iPad.



This is how I plan to use my iPad in conjunction with the AppleTV with AirPlay feature in. Multitasking allows all medias to be projected to the big screen, while freeing you to do other tasks on the iPad while the movie/audio is playing or photo slideshows are being displayed on the AppleTV. Good times ahead, will be trying this while in Istanbul later!

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Nov 23 2010, 10:43 AM

@stringfellow: are you using voltage converter to use in Malaysia? or it accept universal voltage?

Universal, bro.