the connection is just a 100meg cat 5e between front and back end, i can stream 1080p video no problem.
the backend tv server is running on windows xp pro
the file server is a software raid program called "freenas" the only disadvantage with this program is that you cannot grow your raid 5 eg you have to re-format ur drive when you want to add more hdds to the raid, this is y when i upgrade im switching programs
but freenas is still realy good.