Xbox 360 Freezing When Using the Network Connection

Doh!  My Xbox hates the internet. The title pretty much says it all.  I have diagnosed my Xbox 360 freezing problems down to the network connection.  Any activity that uses the network connection will freeze my Xbox. At first I thought it was Xbox Live activity that was freezing the Xbox since I am always [...]

Cable Card Works on My Old Laptop

Now that Microsoft has opened up the flood gates on Cable Card usage in Media Center there are a lot of people that may be wondering if that old PC could be repurposed as a Media Center.  I have thought about it as well as I talk to friends about adopting Media Center so I [...]

Moving Your Family to a Media Center Whole Home Solution – Part 2

In my first follow-up to my post on moving your family to a whole home Media Center solution I wanted to give a better idea on what I have in my setup and how it’s all connected.  We have four rooms in the house where we can use and enjoy Media Center.  The following diagram [...]

Both Tuners Working

Both tuners are now working! Time Warner came out again for the third time on Friday and this time we got everything working. The technician brought out 4 more cable cards and 2 of them were good and 2 were bad. It took about 20 minutes to get the card installed and all the proper [...]

Moving my Cable Outlet

As part of my Media Center Project I have to get a cable outlet in the same vicinity as my new network outlets. I am not going to run cable across the room. Since I will be using the media center itself to watch TV in the office going forward, I have decided to move [...]