Connecting directly to a PC?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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Hi,

I have just bought myself a WD TV live and would like to connect directly to a PC, which is running Vista.

I seem to be struggling to connect to it! I don’t want to connect to the router, because that is too far away and would rather have a wired connection for faster streaming of files.

I would like to know if this is possible, as I have tried everything so far to no avail!

2

That is possible, but it can have issues.    Microsoft Networking does NOT work well when you have MULTIPLE interfaces on a computer running at the same time.

Good luck…

3

Managed to do it after much Faffing around! 

Had to go into network connections, right click on Local area connection, select properties, then tick or re-tick Internet protocol version4(TCP/IPv4), select Obtain IP adress automatically, and away you go.

Only problem is It’s just a local area connection, so can’t connect to the internet! 

It’s good for watching movies straight from PC though, only after you move them into a public folder.

Must be a way of getting an internet connection for WD TV, through the PC??

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Check into “Internet connection sharing.”