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Lionel1020
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Mar 23, 2021
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Repurpose a Ready NAS Duo

I set-up a Ready NAS Duo (with a lot of help from the community) a couple of years ago to share files with our children.   The situation has changed now. The twins have now disappeared from the hou...
  • Sandshark's avatar
    Mar 23, 2021

    Nope, your NAS is a USB host, not a USB device.  If there is some reason you don't want it on your network, you can directly connect it to the PC via a second Ethernet port (including a USB to Ethernet adapter), but you won't gain any speed unless there is already some bottleneck on your network.  Since there will be no DHCP server on that direct connection, you'll need to set up static IPs on the NAS and PC.

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