Okay, that makes since on the wiring...(im sold!)...the last few days I started pricing what it's going to take to run Cat 6e to each location and not as bad as i thought if i do the wiring myself. Basically, since it's a pretty simple design on the house upstairs/downstairs the overall challenge to wiring is distance to router which seems a easy fix via a gigabit switch.
Orbiters
I plan on buying two orbiter pads (WebDT 366) one for my wife and I and one for the downstairs family room. And on the subject of Orbiters again, still looking to see if there is going to be one that even my 4 year old might be able to operate, so any suggestions there would help.
The Media Directors
There seems to be a very big choice in Media Directors out there. Since this is going to be a new purchase as well, and from what i've been able to discern from your answers with this question and the forums, I've decided on about three prospective choices
1. Acer -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228 acer aspire revo 1600
2. Shuttle -
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4846705&SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASE&cm_mmc_o=VRqCjC7BBTkwCjCECjCE Shuttle X27D X Mini Series Barebone PC
3. MSI Wind Nettop - 120 - 1 GB RAM - 1.6 GHz - 160 GB HDD
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=small+form+factor+pc&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=8627188364498619159&ei=1iZoS9iGIZD-NZPRvYYG&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ8wIwBA#ps-sellersor the one, budget depending, i saw at the LinuxMCE store that's being offered. The only thing holding me back on this was cost as i was trying to keep my cost per directore at about 200 dollars U.S.
Any other suggestions would be great? What do all of you think of my choices? Has anyone had any experience with any of these units?
CORE
This component, does confuse me the most, as again i want something that stable, something robust that can handle at least two signal feeds, and something that's not going to be obsolete...my budget is basically about 1000 dollars for it. Any suggestions on a off the shelf Core, or would i be better just building what i needed?
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look on my face about....one question, earlier, i was mentioning that I planned on using the WebDT orbiter, that seems to have speaker/microphone capability? do you think that I could utilize this as a telephony device, ....