Perhaps this is too obvious to even ask, but...
If I store a whole bunch of media (music, tv shows, movies, and so on) on my external harddrive and I hook up the external harddrive to one of the new Airport Extreme routers, will I be able to watch and/or listen to that media on my MacBook Pro wirelessly?
If that's how this works, that's amazing. That'd let me keep my MBP's harddrive comparatively empty, while still having instant access (at least while I'm at home) to massive amounts of media.
To complicate things, though: 1) I don't know anything about streaming/wireless technology. Is the connection between basestation and MBP really fast enough that I can watch things from the external hd on my MBP without it getting all laggy and glitchy? And 2) My internet connection in my apartment is shared by a lot of people. That makes the internet pretty slow. Would that effect the quality or watch/listenability of the media being sent to my MBP?
Or am I misunderstanding everything?
Help?
[Edit: Also, is it really just USB 1.0? The product page doesn't specify that it's 2.0, and that worries me. I have one of the LaCie tripple interface HDs, meaning i could be using Firewire 400, 800, or USB 1 or 2. But I'd really rather not be using the slowest of those connection methods if i can avoid it.]
