UPnP protocol. D-Link's own server worked well, but how would the box react to a UPnP server from a different manufacturer? Fine, as it turns out. Going back to the setup menu, I selected the Twonkyvision UPnP server (Figure 12) that I run on my Kuro Box NAS...

typically had support for the UPnP protocol. The Audio/Video portion of this protocol is designed to standardize the communication required for a client to index, fetch and playback multimedia files. An additional benefit of support for this protocol is the...

Theater, the Netgear MP115, and the Viewsonic WMA 100. All of these devices, and many others on the market, support the standard UPnP protocol for streaming audio and video files. There's even a free UPnP client/server plug-in for Windows Media Player. In...

punched" (forwarded port) in your router's firewall. The easiest way to set all this up is automatically, using the UPnP protocol (Figure 3). If the router on your network has support for UpnP, the Slingbox configuration will use it to both acquire a static...

One thing I didn't see was any support for the standard UPnP protocol that many home audio/video devices use. This would have been a nice feature that would allow interoperability with other manufacture's devices. But since the protocol used is open, maybe...

was its ability to act as a media server. Basically, the idea is that you use the StorCenter to hold your music, photographs and videos. The StorCenter then employs the UPnP protocol to serve the files to a multimedia device hooked into your entertainment center,...

noticed a small Digital5 logo - but that wouldn't have been as much fun as sniffing the network traffic! Since the device supports the standard UPnP protocol, I was eager to try it out with the Twonkyvision servers running elsewhere on my network. I had servers...

music from an external source to either your stereo or to powered speakers. Support is provided for quite a number of external music sources including iTunes, the daap protocol, the UPnP protocol, the SlimServer music server, many Internet radio stations, Microsoft...

gigabit read measurements, which could be due to the TS-101 having twice the RAM of the DS-106e. Multimedia-wise, the DS-106e also bested the TS-101. Both had a nice photo-album feature, but the DS-106e supported the UPnP protocol as well. As far as database...

the G600 has the capability to act as a UPnP based multi-media server. What this means is that you can add content such as music, movies and pictures to the G600, and it will serve them up using the UPnP Audio/Video (AV) protocol. There are a number of devices...