Yes, it needs to be cabled to the router, and it works no problem with my old 100mb cards, and my wireless 54g - I guess the router handles all that stuff.
Bummer. Sounds like there might be some kind of conflict?
Interested in this NAS think myself... as its via a router, is it possible to set it up for access through the net?
So got a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo today with a couple of 2TB disks, plugged them in, booted it up, set it up as RAID1, got it talking to the network no problem ... then immediately broke it by misguidedly letting the Mac Time Machine utility try to use it. It's now grumpily rebuilding its volumes over 10 hours ... will man up and try to get rsync working instead once it's up again..
Ive had one of these for a while now - whilst its pretty good it aint perfect. File transfer times can be very slow, expecially via the inbuilt USB port.
If you have the DLNA set to auto index then youll find transfers fail after a period of time.
Then the machine locks up, has to be forcibly rebooted and takes 10 hours to resync its two disks
What baffles me is that it has nothing (yet) to sync ...
As I understand it, rysync is tolerant of dropped transfers so perhaps will have to be using that until I have a better router. Slackers: do you initiate your rsync jobs from the client (which looks simpler) or from the NAS itself (the ReadyNAS in theory has some utility to do that but I am confident it won't work ...)?
rsync -av ~/* [nas host name|ip address]:~/.
It is that one slackers linked to. Wired to an Ethernet socket on my router. A win7 machine connects to this also by wire, and a netbook running xp by wireless sees it fine too, the shares all just appeared by magic.Transfers are slow- apparently a gig of RAM can help
Quote from: slack---line on August 03, 2010, 09:22:13 amWhat problems are you still having?I am more or less sorted now. The key problem was trying to use it with my wifi network ... lots of dropped transfers. Also trying to use it with Mac utilities like Time Machine. rsync backups over ethernet work OK.
What problems are you still having?
Quote from: underground on August 03, 2010, 10:02:08 amIt is that one slackers linked to. Wired to an Ethernet socket on my router. A win7 machine connects to this also by wire, and a netbook running xp by wireless sees it fine too, the shares all just appeared by magic.Transfers are slow- apparently a gig of RAM can helpWhy would more RAM increase the speed of transfers? The speed at which RAM communicates with other components on the motherboard/within the NAS is way, way, way quicker than your wired or wireless network will ever reach. Start with looking at improving the network connections first. The spec of the NAS indicates that it has gigabit ethernet which is pretty fast, but does your router support this (what model is it, check out the spec)? On the wireless front do you have an 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11n on the router? What spec is the wireless card on the laptop and is it actually using the top spec (e.g. could be capable of all three but for some reason n might not be working so its fallen back to g which is half the speed)?One area where RAM might make a slight difference is if you're syncing a lot of very small files as comparing long lists between server and host would take a lot of time.More RAM will come in handy if you want to do things like using it for multiple functions such as headless torrent client (check out Transmission), use it as a uPnP server for PS3/Xbox/etc. possibly with transcoding on the fly (although I'd have reservations if the CPU is powerful enough for this).