Sure thing Ryan.. first you need a computer connected to the same network that your PS3 is currently. It will go a bit more smoothly if you are wired in, but wireless will work fine too.
-The first step is to choose your media server, if you are using windows then the easiest and cheapest way is to just use windows media player 10. Under WMP10 you will have an option under library called media shareing.
-At this point have your PS3 on and ready to go. Click "Share my media to" box in the media sharing screen and you should see "unknown device". That unknown device is your PS3. Allow it and hit "OK".
-Now at your PS3 search for media servers and a windows media icon should appear with the name of your computer next to it. If you get this far then you are set to go.
-Remember though that the PS3 can only see certain formats. You should be fine for audio since it plays most major formats, but for video you must have AVC video formats or MPEG2(atleast untill they update the PS3 to read other files). I recommend getting PS3 video 9 from Red Kawa to change formats over to AVC.
-Nero - When you buy nero ultamate you get what they call mediahome, which is awesome. If you try to play a .avi file for example from the nero mediaserver nero will know that the PS3 can't display it.. so it converts it to MPEG2, on the fly. Meaning it will encode it while it streams it to your PS3. So if you can spare the money for the nero ultamate set then do it.
I know i'm kind of a rambler.. so if anything is confusing ask me and i'll try to clarify. :P
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