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[FurryNutz]

Not sure if you'll see any major differences between Cat5e and 6. It was cheap enough last year or the year before that I just bit the bullet and bought Cat 6 cables for everything I could. Spent under $30 bucks then also bought a 1000ft roll for about $95. Thats going into the new addition soon.

The iphone works great, it just has the buttons to move the cursor around and play and pause and stop. Works well. I think it works over the WiFi network that my iPhone is attached to the Boxee thats wired.

Whats this Manta TR1 about?

[SBMongoos]

Since the Harmony One is IR and the Boxee Box is RF (so it can do all the command with QWERTY) you need something that can convert the commands.  The Manta TR1 receives the commands from the Harmony One and then converts them for the Boxee Box.  The Manta TR1 get plugged into a USB port on the back of the Boxee Box.

Check out this link:  http://twistedmelon.com/mira/hardware.html

[FurryNutz]

I see, nice. Might look into this one the theater room gets completed. 

[SBMongoos]

Watch eBay to.  Someone sold one recently for a lower price.  That price at the site is decent and some times they run sales there.  They did not long ago but that was before I had the Boxee Box. 

What do you use your Boxee Box for?  So far I've streamed TED.com, movies from my NAS, watched a few other things via a couple of Apps, played MP3s off my NAS, used the browser.  I also like GrooveShark.com so I can use it now via the browser on the Boxee Box.

[FurryNutz]

I will man.

I use Boxee to steam Netflix now, xbox was before. Stream BD from the server and play pandora. Whats GrooveShark like? any good?

[SBMongoos]

I really like Grooveshark.  One of the things they've done now is allow you to upgrade through doing surveys. The only thing that you have to deal with, on a PC anyway, is the ad strip on the far right side of the screen. There are two upgrade levels that you can earn points for doing surveys so you can work your way up the chain for free.

Anyway, what I've been doing is creating playlists.  Then search for whatever you want to listen for.  When you find it drag into your playlist and now it's always there.  If you want you can buy the tune you want otherwise you always have access to it anyway.  The two upgrade accounts give you access via your smartphone, etc., as well.  I like it better because I can find things that pop into my head and I don't have to buy anything. It's like listening to the radio in a way however there are no ads to listen to and you get to hear what YOU want to hear when you want to hear it.

Check it out! http://grooveshark.com/#/

Edit: just transferred a file from my desktop to my NAS.  About 1.36GB according to Win7.  Transfer speed is showing at around ~19MB/s.  Fastest I've seen yet.  Hmm....

Starting to wonder about the MS nomenclature.  File size was showing in GB not Gb. Maybe I'm getting myself confused now. 

This appears accurate: "GB and MB stand for gigabyte and megabyte, respectively. They are measurements for memory capacity. It is a common misconception that 1 GB = 1000 MB. Actually, there are exactly 1024 MB (2 raised to the 10th power) in 1 GB, but because of the popularity of the Metric System, it was approximated to 1:1000 conversion which is easier to remember."