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Readynas Duo v1 VS Duo V2
I've now purchased a duo v2 (with the special price offer on) and plan to get rid of the duo v1 and have a couple of questions. 1. I use the usb printer port on the DUO v1 - how do I configure this...
Hi thanks for the positive feedback.
Maybe I should give you a little background?
I work alot from home and had a dedicated office, with a pc which ran to a PS3 as a media server. This seemed a waste of space.
Over the years I've tried to eliminate all computers (with the exception of a laptop)
1. Wired up all the main rooms of my house with cat6
2. Moved the NAS and printer to the garage
3. Bought a new TV that supports DLNA
4. Moved the Ps3 to a "games room"
5. Placed a wireless router in the centre of the house
6. Bought a three netgear switchs for main communication points (tv/satellite/mobile signal booster, ip phone etc)
So bascially everything is hooked up. I switch on the tv, can stream stuff directly from the net, nas, satellite, skype. I can stream to tv, ps3, laptop and phones and tablets - all great. I place all my media on the nas and use itunes on the laptop to pull off the albums I want onto it.
Works really well
I can pretty much work anywhere (if i have to) and print the odd document to the printer in the garage.
Other than the print server, I am 100% happy with my purchase. The Duo v1 has been around a long time and as such has a load of 3rd party addons, over time I would like to see Readynas release some more functionality.
Its a real shame they took the print server functionality out of the box - I'll end up having to buy a seperate usb print server now - not expensive - just an inconvenience.
Still on the duo v1 I was getting about 19mb/sec copying 5 gig file to my laptop (wired), but with the duo v2 - I'm getting about 87mb/sec - so a four fold increase.
:)
Maybe I should give you a little background?
I work alot from home and had a dedicated office, with a pc which ran to a PS3 as a media server. This seemed a waste of space.
Over the years I've tried to eliminate all computers (with the exception of a laptop)
1. Wired up all the main rooms of my house with cat6
2. Moved the NAS and printer to the garage
3. Bought a new TV that supports DLNA
4. Moved the Ps3 to a "games room"
5. Placed a wireless router in the centre of the house
6. Bought a three netgear switchs for main communication points (tv/satellite/mobile signal booster, ip phone etc)
So bascially everything is hooked up. I switch on the tv, can stream stuff directly from the net, nas, satellite, skype. I can stream to tv, ps3, laptop and phones and tablets - all great. I place all my media on the nas and use itunes on the laptop to pull off the albums I want onto it.
Works really well
I can pretty much work anywhere (if i have to) and print the odd document to the printer in the garage.
Other than the print server, I am 100% happy with my purchase. The Duo v1 has been around a long time and as such has a load of 3rd party addons, over time I would like to see Readynas release some more functionality.
Its a real shame they took the print server functionality out of the box - I'll end up having to buy a seperate usb print server now - not expensive - just an inconvenience.
Still on the duo v1 I was getting about 19mb/sec copying 5 gig file to my laptop (wired), but with the duo v2 - I'm getting about 87mb/sec - so a four fold increase.
:)
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