Can't stream content from PC - please help!

Is there a techy person out there who can help me please?
We have a Sony BluRay/Home theatre system, a desktop PC and a couple of laptops connected our home network, run on a BT homehub (v 2 I think - the curved black one - not the latest one on the adverts).
Until recently all was fine and we were able to stream movies etc from the PC to the TV via the home theatre system. Then about a week ago a BT engineer came out (about the 6th guy to try to solve our speed/connection dropping problems; BT are on "last chance" before we cancel, but don't get me started on that!!) Anyway all worked fine till this latest guy came and tweaked whatever he tweaked, and now the PC doesn't show up on the network. We've tried restarting the PC, resetting the hub and various bits in the home theatre system's set-up, but nothing works. We're no experts (clearly!) but we're not complete technophobes either and we don't know what else to try. Any ideas??? thanks  

Try this first.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Account Information tab for your .Mac account preferences at the SMTP server selection, select the Server Settings below for the .Mac SMTP server.
Enter 587 in place of 25 in the Server Port field and when finished, select OK to save the changed setting.
Test if this resolves the problem.

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