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larsgorm
Feb 27, 2012Aspirant
Choice of wireless router
Hi. Can anybody give me some advice regarding choice of router. I am currently using Apple Airport Express as my main router, and regarding read and write speed to and from my Readynas Ultra 2 I...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 27, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
larsgorm wrote: Thx for your advice. Is it possible to dedicate the 5 GHz specifically to my NAS so that file transfers to and from that device will go as quick as possible (streaming for example)?
Only connect to the 5Ghz network from devices that are going to connect to the NAS and only use those devices for transferring files to/from the NAS.
larsgorm wrote:
By the way do you use ur NAS for your iTunes library? I unfortunately cannot of some reason set this up in the right way so that the 3 of us in my house can sync our iOS devices to and from the NAS (from different computers)
I store my iTunes library on my Mac. iTunes is not designed to use network storage. One library per Mac is how it is designed. This is not a limitation of the NAS but rather of the Apple software.
larsgorm wrote:
And one last question: How does iTunes streaming server work (which I can enable in Frontview) Is it possible in that way to use (stream) the iTunes library from our mobile devices, without having to turn on one of the computers?
The iTunes streaming server (Firefly) streams DRM-free (i.e. not copy-protected) music to iTunes on your Mac. Not sure if there is a Firefly client for the iOS devices.
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