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Hello all,
I've recently purchased a dns-323 and one of the dreaded hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B Model HDT721010SLA360 drives. I was able to get the hitachi drive to work just fine after some troubleshooting, with the soft boot work-around. I haven't switched over to funplug yet, because I was waiting for the firmware fix from d-link. Should be around soon enough. http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=4489.0
Here's my setup:
I have a cable modem plugged into a linksys wrt-310n router(running dd-wrt).
Hardwired into the router, is the dns-323 and my den computer(running vista).
Router connected wireless with office computer(running xp).
dns mapped by ip on both computers
While I'm still getting used to the software and trying to properly set everything up, I've come across a couple of quirks.
1) Upload & download speeds are where I would expect them to be, for the most part, with my current setup. However, when I navigate to a folder with a season of whatever show in it, and right-click on one of the episodes the office computer(xp) pulls information from the dns ~ 4MBytes/sec, while the den computer(vista) only pulls from the dns ~ 600KBytes/sec. This results in windows explorer not responding for 5 or more seconds and the pop-up menu only appearing about every other time. I'm 99% sure it's just some setting in vista that I'm overlooking.
2) I will transfer groups of files(3GByte -12GByte) to the dns from the office computer(xp) and sometimes it will cease transfer and say that volume_1(drive in dns) no longer exists. Only rebooting the office computer will solve the problem. It won't even let me disconnect and remap the drive or access it through network connections. I'm guessing that it's because of the signal loss over the wireless network. I could be wrong, networking is not my forte.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
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I'm not really into Vista, but at one point it did have a seriously bad reputation for low network throughput, that I think was resolved with SP1, so if you haven't got SP1 try installing it and see what happens.
The other problem you describe, losing the connection to the office computer, is in my experience caused by a poor wireless connection - having said that it can happen with any network connection wired or wireless, but is more likely to occur with wireless - it's caused by a high level of errors.
The tcp/ip protocol is supposed to be self healing and it will detect errors and fix them by requesting a retransmission of the affected packets, if the error levels are low, the process works well and is transparent in that the users is not required to take any action and may never know that the error occured. As the error rate increases, the number of retransmissions increases and at some point if the error rate is high enough, you start to get errors on the retransmissions which of course carries the traffic higher and eventually what you have is just retransmissions and no data actually flowing - at this point the connection collapses.
See if your wireless network card will show you statistics on the link - some do - fixing it usually requires locating and removing the sources of interference. One important point, if you're using an Intel PRO/Wireless card, there is a feature on these cards known as PSP or Power Save Polling, intended to reduce power consumption, that is known to cause this problem - either update your drivers or visit Intel for a work around.
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Thanks fordem,
That all makes sense about the wireless network. The router and office computer are at opposite ends of the house. I mounted the router a little higher and I haven't had a problem yet.
Let me be a little more specific about the issue with the den computer(vista):
SP1 has been installed on it already.
Overall upload/download speed is ~10-11MBytes/sec, which is where I would expect it because they're connected through the router. I'll probably end up getting a Gigabit switch soon enough though, just for this.
Anywhere in the directories of the 323 I can right-click and bring up a menu quickly, except for video and music files. For some reason whenever I right-click on those files, I only download from the 323 at ~500-600KBytes/sec, which locks up windows explorer and keeps the pop-up menu from showing up for about 10 seconds.
Since everything else works how I would expect it to, I am kinda at a loss about this. That's why I keep thinking it's some screwy setting in vista that I'm overlooking.
Sorry it took so long to get back, I've been in and out of town.
Thanks again.
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Doesn't anyone have any ideas at all? That's pretty surprising...
I appreciate fordem at least throwing some ideas out there.
I've just been grasping at straws trying to get this to work properly. I'm certain that it's some setting, because everything else works exactly how I would expect it to. If anyone was any ideas, please throw them out here, because this is definitely driving me crazy.
I don't mean to come across like an ass or anything, but I just get pissed when things don't work like they should.
Thanks for any and all help.
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