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    Backing up your NAS/Media Collection

    It seems the only possible way to do it at home is to have another NAS to backup to, or if your NAS allows - to attach to it external drives for backup. So you would have been better with buying two cheaper NASes (even w/o RAID) instead of one expensive NAS. ________ BUY VAPORGENIE
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    Hardware firewall

    Do you download the torrents over a wireless link? If yes, any router would be slow for you because the wireless connection is slow. I also use WRT54G for torrents, and it is working very well for me. On wired connection the speed is 40Mbit/sec, which is the speed of the internet connection...
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    Gigabit Router not giving much of a boost over 10/100? Help

    The problem is not in mixing the cables, I also mix A and B cables. I guess they are not very long as well? You should look at the devices you connect through the router. The speeds you get are possible, if you have for example a NAS on one of the sides. If this is the case, you may have a...
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    Wired Giganet performace problem and discussion related to onboard audio

    May be it is that when you listen to MP3 over the network, you cause the drive on the other computer to seek for the MP3 file, and at the same time to read or write the other files you transfer - hence doing two file reads on different disk areas at the same time? ________ Marijuana vaporizers
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    How To Build a Really Fast NAS - Part 6: The Vista (SP1) Difference

    Thanks to all of you for the interesting discussion. Have not read recently something like that. ________ Buy easy vape vaporizer
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    wireless router to NAS performance

    You will achieve this goal if you buy a gigabit switch, connect the routr to the switch, and then connect all the other devices to the switch instead of directly to the router. Thus they will talk to each other on gigabit speeds, and run through the router only for the internet connection...
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    Router Suggestion to handle Bit Torrent and Simultaneous Media Streaming?

    Sorry, I misunderstood your question as if you wanted to use the router itself to run the bittorrent application w/o computer at all (this is a feature on several Asus routers, they can download and save to usb-attached drives). As Tim wrote, any current router would handle the number of...
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    Router Suggestion to handle Bit Torrent and Simultaneous Media Streaming?

    In order to do that you need to use a computer + access point as a router, at least 1 GHz CPU (Atom, Geode, C7) and 1 GB RAM. The torrents do put load on the CPU and take RAM. Even only file transfers over GBit load the CPU considerably. The ARM processors load is 100% when such file...
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    LinkStation mod

    I have not. But after using Linkstation Live for two years, always on, my opinion is the heat is not a problem, unless the room is very hot. The fan swiches on only in the summer, when it happens to have 28-29 degress C. As for the HDD spinning noise, it is barely audible. I use the LS in our...
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    Hardware choices for DIY NAS

    There is nice mini-ITX format motherboard + Athlon 3000+ CPU with PCI and DDR2 slots for 100 euro in the Conrad shops in Germany. You may order it by phone from their catalog. But I do not know what is the power consumption, your first requirement. ________ TOYOTA AXV-IV
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    PS3 - (Most) Perfect HTPC?

    Gigabyte GA-MA78G-S2H mainboard has HDMI port and supports HDMI audio and I use it with Ubuntu 8.04. I was unable to make it work with Ubuntu 8.10. ________ (AUTOMOBILE)
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    LinkStation Live - How Does AUTO Power Work?

    I have got Linkstation Live without bittorent, so I cannot help you. But you may find lots of information on http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Main_Page The forums there are full of information, though you need to dig in to find it. I unlocked my linkstation and installed various...
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    Decisions Decisions

    Using any wireless router through a big thick wall will give you less than 40 Mbits/sec speed, more likely about 15 Mbits/sec One hole through the wall and a cable link gives you Gbits/sec speed. I learned that only after buying 2 routers. Now I know I should not have relied on a wireless even...
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    Portable server recommendations?

    I agree with the guy who says it is due to the slow processors and small amount RAM. I suggest you using a small computer, like Acer Aspire Mini PC (very fast). Second choice is MSI Wind mini desktop or Asus EEE box. Even a laptop provides much higher transfer speeds than the NASes. But...
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    routers & 3rd party firmware

    Perhaps Asus WL500G Deluxe would be the best, its USB port can be used to share hard drives and printers. It is a computer in a sense, but with very small memory, so it is not easy to load drivers for additional devices - if there are drivers at all for the variety of Linux installed on the...
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    802.11a & 802.11b/g draft-N Smart Load Balance and Failover channel bonding

    I wont use it, but it is interesting, never heard about it. What are the speeds measured? Does it really provide double the speed? ________ Chrysler Centura
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    Looking for a WON device to Power on a NAS

    Is it not possible to use the WOL function of its network adapter? You may try sending the magic packet, there several programs available for free. You need to configure the router to forward the packet to the NAS. I think it was port 7. Just do google search, also there was an article on...
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    Building High Performance NAS / HTPC

    If you have not finished it yet, and you will use Ubuntu - my advice is to use v.8.04 instead of the latest one v.8.10 I converted the PC in the living room from Windows XP to Ubuntu Desktop, and I am very happy with it. I will use it for movies, NAS and torrents from now on. It is not t all...
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    Suggestions for SoHo network

    I would buy two single-drive NASes for the price of one with two drives, and use the second to back-up the first. You may have a look at Buffalo Linkstation Live, they are good. They also support printers connected on one of the two USB ports. Not very speedy though, if that matters to you...
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    Are Cat6 and Cat5e not perfectly compatible?

    The 5e and 6 cables are compatible. You have got a problem with cable plugs making contact. Also if the cables are old, they may got used to specific plug holes, and not make good contact when you use them in other holes. Finally, do you use always the same variant of rj45 plugs? There are...
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