Archos 704 user manual Connecting to a WiFi Network, Playing Media Files from a Network

MANUAL V1.0 Connecting to a WiFi Network > p. 30

5. Connecting to a WiFi Network

Your ARCHOS 704 WIFI can connect to a variety of wireless networks, thus enabling you to browse the Internet or share and play files from other computers.

5.1Playing Media Files from a Network

•Once you set up your ARCHOS to communicate over WiFi to your home network (explained in the sections below), some very neat possibilities open up. You may have heard of streaming media. This is when a media file such as music or video is on one computer, but yet you play it on another computer without having cop- ied it over first.

•With this ARCHOS 704 WIFI device, you can set it in your living room for example, hook it up to your home entertainment system with the optional DVR Station, and play movies or music stored on your desktop PC.

•To do this, set your PC folders containing your music and videos to ‘shared’ by right-clicking on the folder and selecting ‘sharing’. Now, on your ARCHOS, open the Browser from the Home Screen and select Network.

•If you have configured your WiFi connection properly, you should see your computer’s name appear. When you open this up, you will see all your shared folders.

•Just go into a folder, choose a video or audio file, and start playing it! This is especially useful when you have a large library of music and video and you cannot fit it all onto the internal hard drive of the ARCHOS.

Note: You may have some video files of very high quality and these require that the WiFi connection transfers data at a high speed. If your ARCHOS device is far away from your WiFi box, it may happen that the connection speed is reduced thus not allowing some video files to stream from your PC to the ARCHOS and the television.