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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    well, its time for me to eat crow.... my RN-516 is going back.... while the speed and look of the device are very impressive, the ability to actaully USe the device for what i wanted are not. 1. the DLNA server does not work. Netgear admits this but after 6 months, has not fixed it. 2...
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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    i installed screen and unrar however you have to add deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list increased speed to over 100MB/s by transferring without encryption. used straight samba 110MB/s is the max of a Giga switch......
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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    still playing with the RN-516... i must say I am very satisfied. i am now getting OVER 100MB/s transfer speeds. log into my OLD nas via SSH... (this is the ReadyNAS Pro Business) 1. connect using smbclient //NEW_NAS_IP/media 2. The box will ask the password. Just press Enter (assume...
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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    I use SSH to admin the box. for example, to get all my files over the new server, i log into the OLD nas and issue this command; rsync -avz --progress /c/media/Videos root@192.168.1.50:/data/Videos/ sends everything over to the new machine (the new machine being at 192.168.1.50)...
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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    I received it yesterday. I do not care for the OS 6 interface however i am loving the debian wheezy build they use underneath it. (to be fair i never used the web interface of the older nas either) It seems very fast also. It built my new volume (6 - 2TB WD Reds) in about 4 hours. the Pro...
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    NETGEAR Rolls Out All New ReadyNASes

    my understanding is that the older ReadyNas devices did limited snapshotting where the new ones will be limitless. (or untill you run out of space) which is another new feature. the 8Tb and 16TB limits per share are now gone. i pre-ordered a 516 but have not yet received it. the ship date...
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    StrongVPN, port forwarding

    AWESOME!!!! thanks so much... working perfectly now.
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    StrongVPN, port forwarding

    I see alot of postsgoing around about "How to use port forwarding with a VPN client" i too had problems. I had a StrongVPN OpenVPN account. I wanted to use a router so my whole house could hide behind the VPN. i tried DD-WRT with no luck. So i started working with Merlin. I got the VPN...
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    FTP Server using VPN

    here is what to do. enable SSH via the Merlin web interface. log into the router with Putty via SSH. (use the account you use to access the web interface) type in commands like this to open the ports; iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 8090 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.80:8090...
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