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    So... Comcast

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    It is all based on the infrastructure they are forced to use in the area.

     

    Yep, this is mostly accurate. The cable company has to work deals with the local government for use of the utility lines. However, a lot of it is also up to the company on how much they're going to invest in infrastructure and new technologies.

     

    For the cable company I work for, we have fiber running down to almost all the nodes. We also just upgraded our entire CMTS infrastructure to move to DOCSIS 3.1. Those two investments combined allow us to offer much higher speed tiers.

     

    For reference:

    4-5 houses feed into a tap (the small green box or pole sitting in your or your neighbors yard)

    Up to 8 taps feed into an amplifier (usually located on the aerial utility lines, but can also be underground)

    Multiple amplifiers feed into a node (large green box, usually one per neighborhood or subdivision)

    Multiple nodes feed into a hub (Hub contains the CMTS hardware, which is where your cable box terminates)

    For television, the next hop is the Head End (where all the provider satellite feeds are received by the cable company and inserted into the cable network)

    For data, the next hop is the data center (this is the demarc for your cable provider. from there it exits out into the "Internet")

     

    House -> Tap -> Amplifier -> Node -> Hub -> Head end or Data center -> Satellite feed or "Internet"

    Mini ITX build, media centre, steam streaming experiment

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    needed to sort out about 700 randomly named files :D one of those jobs that you put off and it gets worse every week haha. I looked into XMBC doing this for me but it really struggled (few of years back, maybe it's changed?).

     

    That's true, if you're going through the steps of initially sorting your library, XBMC is not the best. When I moved to XBMC I had about 1400 movies and around 30 TV Shows. Luckily for me, I guess I think like a media player and already had my collection sorted more or less the way they like to read them:

    V:\Movies\A\A Beautiful Mind\A Beautiful Mind.avi

V:\TV Series\Archer\Season 1\Archer S01E01.avi

    However, I did still have to manually manipulate a good number of the movies for XBMC to parse them correctly, probably around 100 or so. Maybe one or two of the TV Series.

     

    I'm not a huge fan of the metadata being stored in the folder with the movie itself. At some point one of the managers I tried did that, like yours is, and it drives me nuts. Especially when giving movies to someone else, they don't want or need all that extra stuff, especially if you're copying onto a limited space external HDD or flash drive.

    Mini ITX build, media centre, steam streaming experiment

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    been using a great prog for sorting out digital media collection btw: http://www.mediacentermaster.com/ one of the best apps i've ever bought. looking for something similar for music but not found the right thing yet.

     

    I checked it out briefly, didn't see anything ground breaking, for my purposes. Like I said I'm already on the sab/sb/cp download bundle with XBMC running the front end, so not sure theres anything in there that those can't do.

     

    What in particular have you found most useful from it?

    Mini ITX build, media centre, steam streaming experiment

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    I've been looking into a proper HTPC setup for awhile now. Currently just have a laptop running XBMC on windows 7. I want to replace that with a small form factor case and also move my download processes to it as well (sab, sb, and cp).

     

    I've heavily considered the NUC, like you mentioned, and almost pulled the trigger on black Friday. But the mixed reviews on streaming performance held me back from going through with it.

     

    Keep us posted on your build and how it's performing, I for one am very interested.

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