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CES 2012: TRENDnet TEW-736RE 300Mbps Easy-N Range Extender

If you have dead spots in your house with low, or non-existent wireless coverage, a Wi-Fi extender can warm things up considerably. But setting them up can be a little fiddly unless you have the required knowledge. TRENDnet’s new 300Mbps Easy-N Range Extender is designed to get you up and running with a couple of button pushes.

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CES 2012: NETGEAR WN2500RP Universal Dual-Band WiFi Range Extender

NETGEAR today launched its all-new WN2500RP Universal Dual-Band WiFi Range Extender, designed to boot wireless networking ranges around the home.

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Hands On: NETGEAR WN3000RP Universal WiFi Range Extender

The NETGEAR WN3000RP is the first Wi-Fi extender I have had the opportunity to play with. I was quite pleased with how easy it was to setup and use this device.

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Microsoft Set to Unveil Media Center Based Set Top Box at CES?

Business Insider today reports that Microsoft will formally unveil their “response to Apple TV and Google TV” this week, in CEO Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote speech on Wednesday. The new set-top box platform is likely to be based on Windows Embedded 7 and will run Windows Media Center. But this is not the first time Microsoft will have tried to embed Media Center in a set-top box. If, like me, you’ve already thrown two generations of Media Center Extenders in the bin, you’ll be wondering what will protect your investment this time around.

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Vidabox Updates ThinClient HD With the All-New ThinClient v2 Media Extender

Vidabox have revealed details of the replacement for their ThinClient HD media extender. Cunningly called ThinClient v2, the new model boasts faster performance for both 1080p Blu-ray and DVD playback.

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Vidabox Announces RackClient3 Extender With Multi-Zone Blu-Ray Streaming

In time for the upcoming CEDA Expo, Vidabox today announced a new Blu-ray media extender which streams high definition content, including movies, music, photos, videos and more over the network to TVs around the home, including 7.1 surround sound and HDMI 1.3 support.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Windows Media Center, My Way

The title of this series is now “Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Windows Media Center”.  This is just one final post detailing the successful process from beginning to end in one article.

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 7

This series has been titled “Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center”.   A series has to end sometime and this is the end.  The question is, did I successfully transform Vail?

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Transform Windows Home Server Vail Into a Media Center, Part 6

If you check the WGS blog on any kind of a regular basis, I would assume you have taken a look at some of the earlier parts of this series.  We are getting down to the end and is there a solution in sight?

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The Real Reason Why Extenders Are Dead

The Media Center Extender is banished from under the TV, and the Xbox 360 is back! But one day, every device under the TV will have an Ethernet connection, as will the TV itself, so who needs an Extender anyway?

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