Wifi with Readynas Duo

anarchoi wrote:

Ok i finally decided to buy the CP1350AVRLCD from newegg... One problem solved ! Been looking for a solution to the other problem and i came across this: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6833122446 newegg lists it as a "firewall" and netgear says it is a router : http://www.netgear.fr/images/FVS318N_fr65-36060.pdf Can i use it as a router and just replace my belkin with it ? I don't even know the difference between a normal router and hardware firewall :/

The FVS318N is a business router with gigabit ethernet and 802.11n (the only one I found when I went looking for 8 ports). There are a couple of older versions (FVS318, FVS318G) that you wouldn't want.

Since it is a business router, it has lots of features you wouldn't need, making it more confusing to setup/configure than an normal home router. Also, it did not score very well in the smallnetbuilder review (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/security ... l-reviewed). A high end home router (including both the Netgear WNDR4500 or the Belkin F9K1103) have about 2x the WiFi speeds of the FVS318N.

However, you certainly could replace your Belkin with it, which would be one way to solve your power limitation. Though the UPS will give you more outlets (4 surge protected, 4 more with surge+battery backup), so maybe that is no longer so critical.

anarchoi wrote:
If i buy a switch, would i also need to upgrade my router to get gigabit speed between my computer and my NAS ?

No. You connect your computer and NAS devices to the switch, and then connect the switch to your existing Belkin. All your home wired devices will get gigabit speeds (the router is needed to set up the connection but all the local wired traffic stays on the switch, and never goes to the router). The link between the router and the switch is not gigabit, but is faster than your internet service and your wifi. If later on you want 5 Ghz wifi, you can upgrade your router to a new dual-band version then.

anarchoi wrote:
Could i still stream divx movies with those speeds or would it be a problem ?

You should be able to stream SD content and some HD content, though likely you would have problems if you were trying to use the Duo for something else at the same time.

anarchoi wrote:
So let's say i only plug my two ReadyNas Ultra4 into the UPS... How long do you think the battery would last ?

The Ultra4 typically uses 52 watts, so you'd have a load around 105 watts if the disks were spinning. If you add in a little more for the router and switch (which you need to do if you want to share the UPS with 2 NAS) you'd have maybe 130 watts. I believe this will get you about 40 minutes of protection with the 1350 - enough for short outages, and certainly long enough for a clean shutdown.

anarchoi wrote:
Also, is there a way ReadyNas can detect the UPS is running on battery, so it could automatically clean-shutdown ? If i'm sleeping during a power shortage i will be unable to clean-shutdown my NAS !

Yes. You plug the USB cable into the back port of one of the Ultras. You can then set up the second Ultra to get the status over ethernet. Of course you then need to make sure that ethernet is working when the power fails. (hence plugging in the switch and router to the UPS as well). I manually set the shutdown on the second NAS to be quicker than the default, because I want to make sure the network doesn't go down first. (There is a UPS configuration menu in Frontview under system->power).

Some UPS models aren't detected/monitored properly by the ReadyNAS, however the CP1350AVRLCD works with my Pro 6 and my Duo/NV+.