Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless A&G

A MEDIA SERVER FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING

March 2007 By Brian Ploskina

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One thing I did like about the LinkTheater is that you can use it to serve up content from multiple devices throughout the home, including a PC, Mac, connected storage device (like the LinkTheater Live Multimedia Storage we used), and finally a USB Flash drive, for which there’s a port on the front of the LinkTheater.

The LinkStation storage unit was connected to our network over Ethernet so it served up the same content a lot faster. However, we discovered you need to download the updated software from Buffalo’s Web site in order for your Windows XP computer to recognize the LinkStation.

I think, with some time, you can get the LinkTheater to answer all the needs you have of presenting the content from your computers and media storage devices to your television. But it is going to require some tinkering. I have a feeling there’s a lot of people who enjoy doing that. yy