Greetings:
Well, I've done it. I have my Media Jukebox 8.0 running on a PC on my home network and I'm in the process of loading my 850 CD's in my library into that PC - I'm about 260 CD's into the process. I have the Media server running successfully and the PC's on my home network (LAN) are able to play the music on my jukebox.
Here is the environment I'm running in:
Domain Server running Small Business Server 2000
Web Server hosting my web site running .NET
2 Workstations
(the above 4 PC's are connected into my hub)
Wireless Access point
1 Workstation (running Media Jukebox 8 / Media server) connected via wireless to the rest of the domain
VPN Router connecting to DSL (1.5-6.0 Mbps Down/384 Kbps Up)
I have opened port 80 on the router and it routes to my Media Server and I have configured DNS to connect one of my 5 static IP addresses to it.
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I'm currently at work and I have been able to connect to my server at home (via the internet) - after some time (painful amount of time) I'm able to download the media library.
When I select play on my player, after about 5 minutes of buffering, the song starts playing - in this case, it was a classical piece that has a playing time of 10 minutes... after about 2 minutes of play it starts buffering again for another 3 minutes and it started playing again.
My Question:
Is there any way to optimize this performance? On my network at home the playing of the music is seamless from any PC on my network - but over the internet, it is very painful and frankly, unusable. I have the bandwidth up and down on my server end and don't know why performance is so bad. Is there any way to optimize the streaming of the data?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Tom.