Networked hard drive on a wireless MVP

[rscheller]

Given that a wireless model MVP can be used wirelessly or wired to the LAN, is it possible that the wired connection could be assigned an IP address concurrently running from the wired IP address?

i.e. if the MVP was using wireless to the LAN to the GBPVR PC server, could you plug in an ethernet networkable disk drive into the hardwired ethernet port on the MVP and 'give it' a different network IP address from the wireless IP address the MVP is using?

If so, this would provide large amounts of local cache storage at the MVP and largely minimize the need for real-time streaming since you could cache the mpeg files or music files, etc. on the MVP local drive.

[mvallevand]

The MVP with GBPVR doesn't really access local or network files, the files are streamed to it using a proprietary media protocol. Even if there was a way to a run a media server on the storage device, GBPVR would still need access to the share to get the file listings and instruct the MVP to play them, so you'd still be running a wire to a switch between the share and the MVP which seems to defeat your intended purpose.

Finally, and I think this point is overlooked a lot when people are buying NAS devices with sharing, UPnP etc, you won't really find any that have the power to do transcoding (conversion) to the mpeg stream that the MVP requires and that GBPVR does for you behind the scenes.

Martin

[rscheller]

Thanks mvallevand.

I was asking that question from a totally novice perspective and your reply made me see that what I was asking was impossible with the current state of the MVP.