AC68 Attached USB Drive Issues

[serious]

Hi,

I have 2 different USB drives connected to my AC68 (Merlin 376.45). I am using a Mac (Mavericks) and both drives are HFS+ 2TB USB (2.0) drives and both have two partitions.

On Finder, under "rt-ac68r" in Shared I see all four partitions.

The weird part is that I can easily drag and drop files over my wireless network to the partitions on the drive that is set up to use Time Machine (through the Asus USB Application). However, when dragging and dropping to the two partitions on the other drive I get first prompted with "Finder wants to make changes. Enter your password." After successfully doing that I then get "Item's can't be copied because you don't have permission to read them."

I can drag the same file to my Time Machine USB drive no problem. According to the Asus/Merlin preferences my drives are both R/W. Looking at Get Info in Finder, I see my attached USB drive is saying "custom permissions." Connected directly to my Mac I can drag the file no problem. However, I can't drag it over my wireless network when connected to the router.

That said, my second point is I am REALLY disappointed with the speed at which files move over my wireless network. I have a Mac using n wifi and I was hoping for something faster than 3 Mb/s in slinging files from my Mac to my router-attached USB drive that sits a few feet away.

 

[philmiami]

I use all apple
iMac's wired/wireless&mac mini
macbook&book pro
android tablets and phones
I have not been able to get the USB 3.0 port to be a good TM
on my mac mini/mavericks 10.9.4 it would not hook up, even after all the commands in terminal
all I know is if the USB drives are EXT3/4 then things are faster to/from the drive
the OS of the router is Linux and it doesn't recognize HFS+ too well but does with FAT and EXT2/3/4
My drive is formatted in FAT, and I can't format the drive in EXT off the router because it is not a "full" fledged Linux OS
I can/have to do it (when I get to it) off my QNAP NAS TS-419+ web gui interface. Since it's Linux (and runs like a true OS), it will format the drive to EXT2/3/4 when hooked directly to the NAS
That and a router USB (or even eSATA port) does not give the same speed in/out as a NAS does, wired or wireless

 

[serious]

Can anyone get decent transfers speeds over their wireless network to an HFS+ connected SAMBA drive?

I hear you, that it won't be as fast as an NAS. Granted. But, still... with the box bragging about 1900Mbps, I was hoping my n-network 450 Mbps would show up. Instead, I get 3Mbs for transferring files from my Mac to the USB drive attached to the router? That's a BIG drop from 450.

If I format this drive as EXT, will my Mac still be able to use it? Will that get my transfer speeds going much faster for dragging files on my local wireless network?

I sprang for the top of the line Asus router, because I want to keep everything Mac and don't want any hassles. According to the Asus site, the AC68 supports HFS+.

 

[philmiami]

all I can say is try it