External HD Problem

[sherpa_man]

Just after abit of info, I used to store my movies on my imac, i have alot of movies so i moved then to a external HD, when i stream them from my external drive through my mac i get buffering problems, when i stream from my mac HD there fine. Any ideas? the files i playing are 1080p mkv files over a wireless network.

[Stente]

its because the files are too big to be transferred wireless - you need to go wired ethernet or just plugging in the harddrives directly to BB.

[FUNKER530]

Just after abit of info, I used to store my movies on my imac, i have alot of movies so i moved then to a external HD, when i stream them from my external drive through my mac i get buffering problems, when i stream from my mac HD there fine. Any ideas? the files i playing are 1080p mkv files over a wireless network.

You will always get better transfer and streaming rates from an sate/ide HDD compared to USB. You should still be able to stream but maybe just not wirelessly. Try plugging your macbook into your macbook via ethernet and see if that makes a difference. The best configuration I have found is to have the hdd plugged into the boxee box via usb and then share the files across the network from there.

[sherpa_man]

i have 2 boxee boxes, one wired and one wireless. How would be best to set them up?

[Fire4Effect]

You will always get better transfer and streaming rates from an sate/ide HDD compared to USB. You should still be able to stream but maybe just not wirelessly. Try plugging your macbook into your macbook via ethernet and see if that makes a difference. The best configuration I have found is to have the hdd plugged into the boxee box via usb and then share the files across the network from there.

Hrm, I have 3 USB HD's (two 1 TB drives and one 2 TB drive, plugged into an XP Pro machine) shared across a 10/100 network, and I've never run into any buffering issues. Even with streaming of 12gb bluray rips.

[chaluga]

just bought a new 2tb lacie streaming 40 gig across wired smooth. Wireless is finicky, tried it for a month and had enough