Home networks?

[Feanor]

... I personally think BD live is a waste. I wonder how many people would be interested and of those how many would have networks in their home. I guess networks may not be so scarce with all the laptops. ...

I agree that BD-Live isn't very enticing. Home networks, on the other hand, I'm sure are quite prevalent nowadays.

How many people have more than one computer at home? Of those, how many don't have networks?

We have six computers here, connected by a router which is connected to a DSL modem thence the Internet.

• My daughter has two XP computers in her room, one a laptop, connected wirelessly to the router.
• My wife has an XP computer connected via Cat5e.
• I have two computers connected to router and each other through a switching hub via Cat5e:
  • One is the Vista machine I'm using at the moment;
  • The other is a dedicated music server located close to my main, stereo system. Since it runs XP Pro, I usually control it through Windows Remote Destop Connection. My classical and jazz collection in ALAC or FLAC format resides on a USB external drive attached to this.
• [Edit: opps! forgot the 6th] I have a Windows Home Server machine that automatically backs up all the other computers overnight. Also, our folk and rock collection, mostly MP3, resides here in a public share folder.