I’ve finally been able to finish the media server network here at home. It wasn’t easy to make every device play nice with each other. So this is how it looks now:
- 2 Noxon Wireless MusicCenters which plays the music. you connect the speaker with an ordinary 3,5 inch jack.
- 1 Linksys NLSU v.2 this is network attached storage device which can get 2 usb hard drives connected to your network.
- 1 Samsung HD 120 GB in an external Revoltec HD Case. Ofcourse this is the storage where the music will be stored.
- 1 Linksys WRT54GC to connect 1 Noxon in the bedroom because the signal isn’t strong enough to reach the bedroom.
- 1 Linksys WRT54G which is ofcourse my internet access for the entire network. The NLSU 2 is connected to this router so that everything can have access to the media server.
- Unslung v.6 which is an alternative firmware image for the NLSU v2 which extends it with a small linux distribution.
- TwonkyMusic 4.1 from TwonkyVision is a piece of software that can be installed onto the NLSU running Unslung. This is the actual media server software. It’s really cheap and works nicely.
All these items make it possible to listen to wathever music is on the NLSU Media server as well as a number of internet radio stations.
Using the internet radio option I’ve already dicovered a lot of nice to listen stations. Of course all that depends on what you like 
Currently the station we listen to here at home is Batanga Internet Radio Merengue. It’s really nice if you like latin music 
Some links that you might like if you ever want to setup something similar:
- Linksys wireless routers: WRT54G and WRT54GC
- TwonkeyVision Media Server
- Revoltec external cases
- Unslung linux firmware
- Terratec Noxon devices
Filed under: Linksys, NSLU, Noxon, Revoltec, Twonkyvision, unslung
