Playing
DVD movies are a bit harder if they are encrypted. You need to put write permissions on that drive. If you have
DVD decryptor program. You can copy the whole
DVD or only the movie to a hard drive. 100 Mb ethernet easily handles
DVD although 10 Mb can handle it too. You may get jurky motion during intense animation while using 10 Mb ethernet.
A router with a switch is the same as connecting a hub or a switch to a router. In a linksys router for example, the router part uses a Realtek 10Mb ethernet chip. The switch portion uses a five 10/100 ethernet chip. The switch is a hub but with an interesting feauture. If someone is downloading a file from the internet
and two users are playing a game against each other. The user that is downloading the file will not affect the users that are playing a game. The same goes for the two users play the game. This is all done by the virtual connection of the switch.
Yes, I did opened up a Linksys router. There are two boards in the bluish purple box. One is the switch part
and the other board is the router. If the router doesn't work. You can disconnect the router
and use the switch with out any problems. The switch can handle up to 5 devices but the router uses the fifth connection.
I did the test last week. On my Windows computer the
DVD movie portion was decrypted
and placed on a hard drive. Using the LINUX computer, I used XINE. I mounted the Windows computer using
SAMBA mounting utility
and watch the movie. No hiccups using 100 Mb ethernet although there was pauses when it load each vob file. This was expect because it did pause on my Windows system when I loaded the vob file locally.
BTW, why use SSH. You don't need a secured telnet if you are behind a firewall. If you are accessing your computer across the world, yes you need it.
