Comments on: WD TV Live first impressions

By: jehzlau

jehzlau — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:18:12 +0000

@Roy – ohh.. so I’ll plug it in the USB port, instead of the LAN port.. Wooooooot! I’ve tried it but it didn’t work. I also bought a converted. USB to LAN, but it still didn’t work. Anyway, I did what you did and do the wiring thing. Thanks for answering my question Roy, even if you’re a busy man. ^___^

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:15:27 +0000

Jehzlau, you can plug a certain number of USB wifi adapters directly into on of the WD’s USB ports. There’s a link in the post to a list of compatible adapters. Unfortunately, you’ll need excellent reception to be able to stream movies. It didn’t work well enough for me, so I switched to powerline/wired.

By: jehzlau

jehzlau — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:37:53 +0000

And oh, how did you plugged the Linksys WUSB600N? Did you plug it in the USB port? Or in the LAN port using a converter? *confused*

By: jehzlau

jehzlau — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:36:14 +0000

Have you tried connecting WD TV Live using a Wireless Adapter? Not a wireless router? Did you use a LAN to USB converter? Wooooooot…

I’m really wondering why my wireless USB adapter didn’t work. I think I need to use another wireless router and plug it in my WD TV Live.

I also tried Airport Express, but I can’t make it work as a Wireless Adapter. T___T

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:41:59 +0000

Bryan, they should all work with Macs. The configuration utilities may not, but all the ones I’ve had worked fine without changing the defaults. Since the signal will (in all likelihood) not leave your home’s power grid security is only a minor issue anyway, and the password the only thing you can change.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:24:02 +0000

I have a Mac, I love the wd tv live and I haven’t even connected to my home network… and therein lies the problem. Are you aware of any powerline networking adapters that will work with macintosh?

By: Asfand Mudassir

Asfand Mudassir — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:52:42 +0000

Nice post, i have alot of movies collection, i had need such a thing, what is the price borther??

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:57:00 +0000

It seems doing a full reset (unplugging the power for 10 sec or so) fixes many networking issues. Apparently experimenting with wifi left some settings in the box that needed to be erased for wired networking to work reliably. It’s worked great since doing that (forgot to mention this in my earlier comment).

By: Westie

Westie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:55:01 +0000

I’m inclined to agree about not using wifi if you can avoid it – although that was the feature that sold it to me as I did not want to go to the trouble of installing wiring and jackpoints. I’ve been trying both wired and wifi connections and the wired connection is far more simple to set up and (perhaps obviously) faster to connect. I must admit that the wifi has performed well for me once connected to my network – no issues like you have experienced.

By: Skip Bensley

Skip Bensley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:11:37 +0000

I have had two 500GB WD hard drives fail on me in less than a year. They just stopped reading the content and started clicking. When I asked them for assistance they had none for the purchases I made were done on a discontinued model apparently. WD was very unhelpful and I now keep my backups that are still WD turned off when not in use. I used the Hard Drives for backing up video production files, losing two in the past year was very costly. I guess my point is WD hard drives seem to be wonky, and I would not recommend them for anything.