Is it a NAS i want?

ANDARIAL

ANDARIAL

ANDARIAL

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My mate in town has just got BT Infinity 2 fibre ,lucky ******* 68 meg down,20 meg up atm
He is not tech savvy so I do all his repairs ,installs etc

He is encouraging me to use some sort of storage on his line as my line is slow 3 meg down and 800 k up max
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The back of the BT hub has a usb port,will attaching a usb hard drive to this let me access remotely and download files from my pc to it?

OR do I need some sort of NAS? Had a lot of bother when I tried a Netgear NAS a few months ago and this was in my house directly attached to my network,god knows how I would go about accessing a NAS across the net

He has moved away from a desktop pc and only has laptops and tablets,so adding a desktop to his house is not something I would like to do,energy/cost-wise I think it would be unfair to take advantage like that

Thoughts and opinions please on what i should be looking to do
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So can I access a NAS on his line?
can I transfer files from my online storage to his house/NAS via something like Filezilla?
 
There's no benefit to having storage at his house, if it's still limited by your connection.

You can plug a USB HDD into a BT hub and access it on the network. Whether it can be shared via the internet I don't know.

I'm currently storing my photos and documents in dropbox, which keeps it'self synced and backed up. But I only have about 20GB of stuff.

Kinda depends on what, and how much, you're storing, and how frequently you access it.
 
Basically it will be to transfer files off my online seedbox(photos,family videos that have been uploaded to it) by other members of my family
Then when it gets a few GBs on it i will call in take it away to transfer to my home pc
But I want remote access to start the transfer of the files to it,is this possible/easy with a NAS,low power unit?if so what make and model should I be looking for :)
 
I've got an N40L which isn't too heavy and is quite small. You can install Nas4Free and have a Transmission web torrent interface installed. If you forward the ports ect you should be able to start torrents remotely. It has USBs which you could mount to copy things to. It also has a PCI slot you could stick a USB3 card into to make transfers a bit faster. They're fairly cheap on Ebay.
 
Antowns said:
I've got an N40L which isn't too heavy and is quite small. You can install Nas4Free and have a Transmission web torrent interface installed. If you forward the ports ect you should be able to start torrents remotely. It has USBs which you could mount to copy things to. It also has a PCI slot you could stick a USB3 card into to make transfers a bit faster. They're fairly cheap on Ebay.
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They aren't cheap by any stretch if imagination on ebay, I've been watching N36 models go for £150 over the last couple of weeks.
 
How do you benefit from this? I don't understand.. You are still limited by your own internet connection? :p
 
Sparx said:
How do you benefit from this? I don't understand.. You are still limited by your own internet connection? :p
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the files are hosted on a computer with a multi meg line.....my mate has a 68 meg line.....i have a 3 meg line.....i live near enough to collect the nas and take it back to my house to transfer the photos and videos.....
what is difficult to understand?

i am asking if it is possble to control the transfer of files fom my online sorage to a nas on his 68 meg line?
 
ANDARIAL said:
the files are hosted on a computer with a multi meg line.....my mate has a 68 meg line.....i have a 3 meg line.....i live near enough to collect the nas and take it back to my house to transfer the photos and videos.....
what is difficult to understand?
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Nothing now you actually elaborated why.. Bit daft but hey ho! :)
 
Of course it's possible :confused:

If you can download files from your "seedbox" to your desktop at home, it's exactly the same process to download them to a computer at someone else's home.

I would second using a microserver as the NAS, though you might get something cheaper for a single drive. If his IP address is not static, run something equivalent to dyndns on the NAS to keep track of where it can be found. Forward one of the ports on his modem to the NAS to allow ssh access from the internet (e.g. your house).

Then you can control the NAS exactly as if it was sitting beside you (though switching it on/off at the wall is harder). Copy files from your server to it, periodically or on-demand, and you're done.

The setup lends itself rather well to an off-site backup.
 
JonJ678 said:
Of course it's possible :confused:

If you can download files from your "seedbox" to your desktop at home, it's exactly the same process to download them to a computer at someone else's home.

I would second using a microserver as the NAS, though you might get something cheaper for a single drive. If his IP address is not static, run something equivalent to dyndns on the NAS to keep track of where it can be found. Forward one of the ports on his modem to the NAS to allow ssh access from the internet (e.g. your house).

Then you can control the NAS exactly as if it was sitting beside you (though switching it on/off at the wall is harder). Copy files from your server to it, periodically or on-demand, and you're done.

The setup lends itself rather well to an off-site backup.
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Thank You :)
Most clear answer to my question,will look into a microserver option
cheers
 
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