Update on the router

After finally setting it up and finding a way to get my 1tb drive on it I have been able to try out most of the features.  First, like most things linux, the instructions aren't very detailed for certain things.  For example, I didn't understand how to setup the web access for the NAS.  I did figure it out after an hour of trial and error.  I didn't figur eout how ot access it using DynDNS which is what I would prefer.  I did figure out how ot access it through buffalonas.com.

The NAS works well.  I after I was able to move my contect off the 1tb drive so I could format it as XFS and move stuff back on I started organizing the content.  first i grabbed a couple of Mac backup software as I don't trust Time Machine after what I have read about it.  I am trying one the should be scheduling backups on sunday.  I hope it does incremental chnges only, the interface is super simple with few options.

Then I moved all my music to the NAS.  I haven't boot up windows yet and switch the Zune software to use the network share.  But I got it working fine on the Mac side.  The web access can stream mp3s which is neat.

I have three USB drives hooked up with 5 partitions total.  The 1tb drive has a 32gb FAT partition I used to keep in common between Mac and Windows and now the new XFS partition that use to be HFS.  I have a 500gb drive that is split similar but with NTFS and FAT32.  And finally I got an external enclosure for my old PS3 40gb drive which is currently NTFS.  Obviously I need to deal with the NTFS partitions yet.  I think the 40gb drive will become fat32 and it won't be on the NAS.  The other one, once I move it's contents, will become XFS and store ISO images.

The router is smart enough to realize when you are copying contents between drives/partitions on it and won't use the network to copy.  It will do a direct copy which is really quick.

Last night I tried the bittorrent client.  I just upload the torrent file to the router.  It will create a bittorrent folder on the first partition of the NAS.  There isn't an option to set the location which I am a little dissapointed at.  It didn't take long to download the file.

While it was downloading the file I setup the media server.  The web interface just as a checkbox to enable the media server.  You cannot specify where the media is.  So it searches every drive/partition/folder for media.  I do not like that.  However, the PS3 picked up the media server just fine.  So once the video file was downloaded I checked it out on the PS3.  I still need to hook up the 360 to it so I can stream music.

So far I only had to reboot the router once because I was fooling around with it.  Otherwise I haven't had to touch it since I bought it.  That is unlike the Linksys I have been using.  I would have to reboot that once a week.  Web access to it would just stop, but I usually found out about that after other symptoms, like lots of lag in games.

For my next test I am going to find an insanely large torrent file that has a ton of seeders.  While it is downloading I am going ot play some online games.  I want to see how well it manages bandwidth.

Over all it is a great router for the price.  However, it isn't exactly the most user friendly device. 

Does anyone reading this have a Mac?  I think my Macbook Pro has a wireless N adaptor but I am not sure.  I don't see anything that says either what type of wireless device it is or how fast it is connected.  I would like to test out the N capabilities of the router.