As any PCH owner knows and FYI for to be owners, the current PCH doesn't have wireless capability. There is an ethernet port on the device for a wired network but for wireless you can't connect a USB wireless adapter to the device since it has no supporting drivers. I understand from Syabas they are working on a firmware upgrade to support one specific chipset of a Wireless N card that will be supported via USB.

Since my PCH is nowhere near the main network I have done the following.

1. Used a 802.11g wireless bridge (in this case a Dlink). While that works okay for SD content, it doesn't work so well for HD content which I think could be a limitation of the wireless speed, my environment or both. BTW you can also use a Linksys wireless router that is patched with open source firmware to achieve the same

2. Bridge to my main network via my HTPC.  This works surprisingly well. I have a HTPC near my TV that is plays content recorded via gbpvr and also content on my main file server. Again it's connected via wireless but this time via 802.11a. I have a 802.11a network in my house as well as 802.11g since I needed 54mbs well before 802.11g became ubiquitous and also the 5Ghz frequency of 802.11a is less susceptible to inferference from other networks, microwave ovens, cordless phones.

The HTPC plays content on the file server via Windows shares.

I connect the PCH to the HTPC using the HTPC's ethernet port (which is unused) using a RJ45 cross over cable. I have manually configured the IP address for the ethernet port on both the HTPC and the PCH to be in the same subnet but not the same subnet as my main network.

I run swisscenter (www.swisscenter.co.uk) as the media server. I have swisscenter configured to serve up both local drives on the HTPC and the shared drives on the network. The PCH is configured to access the swisscenter server over the static ip address as entered on the HTPC and specific port.

When I fire up the PCH I choose the  option Web Services and the Swisscenter server shows up. From that I am able to watch content both stored on the HTPC as well as on the network. It works surprisingly well.  I very rarely have any stuttering in the video stream (even HD streams) and the connection is rock solid.  The PCH seems to buffer content so that small interruptions in the signal don't seem to affect the playback but this connection is much more robust than the 802.11g I tried using the bridge.

Now can't wait till the firmware is released to play the AAC HE streams that Freeview uses.

Larry