I'm looking to do the following and wondered if anyone could confirm if it will work fine or if i could do anything better.
I want to by a Rasperry Pi, install XBMC onto it and plug it in by my TV in my front room. I then want to have media stored on an external device that i can access from the Pi as well as my desktop in my room and my laptop, so i'm thinking a NAS, specifically Seagate Central. I would however want to limit or put a password on accessing the NAS' media, so for example if i dont want to grant access to all of my housemates to access it - i assume this can be done?
The tricky part is, the new apartment i'll be moving into, the wireless router is on the floor above where the landlord lives as he just sets up a seperate ssid for the suite he rents out below. So i'd have to do all the above wirelessly.
So firstly, will i be able to set all this up without being able to plug into the router at any point? and secondly i want to stream 720/1080p video from the NAS. Should that work over an N network with your bog standard ISP provided router or will i encounter problems there too?
Any help and suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
I want to by a Rasperry Pi, install XBMC onto it and plug it in by my TV in my front room. I then want to have media stored on an external device that i can access from the Pi as well as my desktop in my room and my laptop, so i'm thinking a NAS, specifically Seagate Central. I would however want to limit or put a password on accessing the NAS' media, so for example if i dont want to grant access to all of my housemates to access it - i assume this can be done?
The tricky part is, the new apartment i'll be moving into, the wireless router is on the floor above where the landlord lives as he just sets up a seperate ssid for the suite he rents out below. So i'd have to do all the above wirelessly.
So firstly, will i be able to set all this up without being able to plug into the router at any point? and secondly i want to stream 720/1080p video from the NAS. Should that work over an N network with your bog standard ISP provided router or will i encounter problems there too?
Any help and suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!