I recently bought a multimedia center using the NDAS technology. I
must say that using a wireless connection the connection between my
laptop and the NDAS is extremely unstable (freezes the laptop
"randomly" and it takes several seconds to access any files whether on
the NDAS drive or locally, which ofcourse makes the technology
useless)
THATS WHY I'm thinking - maybe someone out there had good experience
with an NDAS drive via wireless for copying 300-600mb files - and
maybe you would like to share that knowledge.
I remember reading somewhere on the Ximeta board that some people
experienced a lag due to a network conflict, and that NDAS took
forever to handle that conflict - but I never got to realize if Ximeta
has fixed this problem, or if its a problem at all.
> I recently bought a multimedia center using the NDAS technology. I
> must say that using a wireless connection the connection between my
> laptop and the NDAS is extremely unstable (freezes the laptop
> "randomly" and it takes several seconds to access any files whether on
> the NDAS drive or locally, which ofcourse makes the technology
> useless)
> THATS WHY I'm thinking - maybe someone out there had good experience
> with an NDAS drive via wireless for copying 300-600mb files - and
> maybe you would like to share that knowledge.
> I remember reading somewhere on the Ximeta board that some people
> experienced a lag due to a network conflict, and that NDAS took
> forever to handle that conflict - but I never got to realize if Ximeta
> has fixed this problem, or if its a problem at all.
worked for me by changing wireless settings both in router and card
I have DELL XPS M140 (that comes with Intel 2200BG wireless card) and a Netgear WGR614 v6 router (54mbps b/g).
This is what I did:
In Router -
1. Updated the driver (got it from Netgear's support site)
2. In the router switched to "Mode G only" and channel 11.
3. Left rest of the settings "as is". (I use 128bit encrypted WEP security)
In Wireless card (in the laptop) -
1. Updated the driver (got it from Intel's support site)
2. Went into Device Manager and updated card's properties as follows:
a. set it to only use "mode g" and channel 11
b. specifically set the speed to 54mbps (default is "best")
I spent **lot** of hours figuring this out. Tried tonnes of combinations and am pretty sure that the above steps helped me get it to work the way I wanted. Just upgrading drivers didn't help; just updating settings without updating drivers also didn't help. And every setting (I mentioned above) has a signficant role in making it to work. For more details, please pick up a router book and read what is "mode g" and what are "channels", etc. and you'll know why I set it to specifically "mode g" and why I used channel 11 and not 1 or 3 or 5.
So, if you have similar set up you might try out the above solution. No need to get 100mbps super G router or any thing... basic audio just works fine. I haven't yet tried dumping Gigs of data yet... will try that this weekend. Eventually I want to be able to dump my backup files to this wireless drive. I'm guessing I might need to upgrade my router and card to 100mbps super G router then - let's see... But in a nut shell ximeta does what it says and they do it perfectly... however on the downside, support sucks, documentation sucks.
It's unfortunate that such things are still so complicated... I work in the router industry (in the valley) and I could make it to work because I know how routers work and I went configuring things really systematically. I never followed what any post on the internet said unless it made sense to me and I knew what I was doing. I certainly don't expect any peprson (even in the computer industry) to make it to work easily.
BTW, LAN connection worked like a charm for me. It was certainly slower than the USB connection, but the speed was far enough for my needs. However I don't need LAN.
NDAS and Ximeta - very slow via wireless 
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