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<blockquote data-quote="BennieBoy" data-source="post: 259553" data-attributes="member: 12527">Athlon900,I have seen those and they should work without problem.Depending on the price, a CF Card and adapter can be a lot cheaper.I haven't tried EWF with a virtual machine yet.I will give it a try as soon as possible.Zappza,I did not yet updated to Gigabit yet.I can try a direct link between the two PC's soon.But I do not think it will make much difference. Because the delay is not caused by the troughput (I think).RemarkWhen the PC boots into windows and MP is automatically started, it can happen that the network is still not available. For this, I wrote a small program (can be found in the main tutorial) which can be started from the &quot;Start Menu&quot;/&quot;Programs&quot;/&quot;Startup&quot;.It is Called WaitForNetwork and takes 3 arguments&nbsp;TryForNumberOfMillisecond&nbsp;HostNameOfYourShare&nbsp;FullNetworkPathToMPIt will start MP the moment it finds the computer with the network share.You should disable Automatic startup in the configuration.You can use this small application also for starting other stuff from the network share. Just replace the FullNetworkPathToMP to the Full Path of your Program.TimingsI added the timing of the startup of my HTPC (little over 40Seconds fully started)Greetz,ben</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BennieBoy, post: 259553, member: 12527"] [B]Athlon900,[/B] I have seen those and they should work without problem. Depending on the price, a CF Card and adapter can be a lot cheaper. I haven't tried EWF with a virtual machine yet. I will give it a try as soon as possible. [B]Zappza,[/B] I did not yet updated to Gigabit yet. I can try a direct link between the two PC's soon. But I do not think it will make much difference. Because the delay is not caused by the troughput (I think). [B]Remark[/B] When the PC boots into windows and MP is automatically started, it can happen that the network is still not available. For this, I wrote a small program (can be found in the main tutorial) which can be started from the "Start Menu"/"Programs"/"Startup". It is Called WaitForNetwork and takes 3 arguments [I]TryForNumberOfMillisecond HostNameOfYourShare FullNetworkPathToMP[/I] It will start MP the moment it finds the computer with the network share. You should disable Automatic startup in the configuration. You can use this small application also for starting other stuff from the network share. Just replace the FullNetworkPathToMP to the Full Path of your Program. [B]Timings[/B] I added the timing of the startup of my HTPC (little over 40Seconds fully started) Greetz, ben [/QUOTE]

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