paulsif

Hiya I am pretty new to this networking stuff! I would like to Access my D-Link DIR-313 NAS drive remotely. I have been trying to work this out myself but I have become stuck! I have already forwarded port 21 but I just dont really know where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Great thanks for your help and research Snow. Im beginning to understand wireless networks a little bit more now. All my firmware is up to date so all is working well at the moment. What kind of wireless equipment do you have?

Yeah I think im getting there with all this! The router is normally about 2 meters from my laptop so I cant see why the signal speed should sometimes be as half as fast when i've still got full signal strength? Sorry to keep throwing these questions about I'm just trying to get the best from this piece of kit.

Wolfey is right thanks for al you help so far :-) I looked at my antennas on my router and your right is says on them 2.4 and 5GHz whats confusing though is that my pc will only make two network connections on the same band i.e. 2.4GHz but not one connection to 2.4GHz and one connection to 5GHz. Now looking at my network and sharing center it says im connected to only one AHHHH lol this is really confusing!

I'll try switching to '802.11n only' mode but I wont be able to leave it as other people use the network don't have 'n' cards. One theory i've heard about the two networks appearing is the one is for inbound traffic and one is for outbound traffic. that way doubled up at 300Mbps would equal 600Mbps. im not sure how accurate this is though?

Thanks for your reply Snow. At the moment im getting around 300Mbps but that does drop down to around 160Mbps though. I learnt that enabling the frequency to auto 20/40MHz using 40MHz you apparently double the amount of data to be transmitted. This seems to work pretty well. I wonder why it connects to two the network twice, any ideas?

Hi guys, Probably an easy one this. I recently brought a D-Link DIR 825 router which has 'n' speed. I also got the 'n' card for my laptop too. This router broadcasts two wireless networks dlink and dlink_media (default). dlink is 2.4GHz and dlink_media is 5GHz. If I connect to one of these networks i.e. dlink, I then go to the network and sharing center and it says im connected to dlink and dlink 2. Im very new to this dual band wireless networking and im trying to find as much info as possible on this so I can get the most from my new router. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Regards Paul

thanks dan ill give apples tech guys an email see if they can help. im running on vista and i can see all of my doccument through explorer as far as im aware of the guest acc is enabled but ill check.

I've had a look on the apple forums but no luck and after about 5 days of posting no help neither. So I thought i'd come back here to see if anyone has any more ideas?

Thanks for looking dan, nice to see local people helping me out. Ive tried authorizing my laptop and it says its already done and there is no password for the shared library. I'll have a look on the apple forums myself to see what i can find.

My NAS drive runs on Linux and has a built in iTunes server, so on iTunes I just tick the box to search for shared libraries and away you go, in theory! The NAS drive is managed through the internet by typing the ip address in my browser. It used to work then I formatted my laptop and from then its not been working properly so its probably something simple but like yourself I dont normally use iTunes for network sharing so its beyond me really.

Hi everyone, I've got this problem with my new NAS drive. When I open iTunes the shared music appears in on the left hand side but when I click the folder to show my music only a handful of the songs appear. I have the same music on my laptop and they work fine through iTunes. If I disable and then re-enable the iTunes server on my NAS drive then a different group of songs appear and a different amount too. Has anyone got any ideas as im stumped! Many thanks Paul

Ive spoken to BT and they say as long as I don't want to use BT Vision I'll be ok using my own epuipment

Hello im in the process of leaving sky bb and thinking of going with bt, the reason being i brought a D-Link DIR 825 router but sky will only let me use their own router :mad:. So basiclly i've got a nice shiny D-Link router that i wont be able to use without a DSL modem. I have my Sagem sky router and also a Netgear DG834PN router that I could use as a modem if possible? if this could be done I would be very grateful if someone could help me. Many thanks.

Hello sorry for the long reply but i've been really busy. I installed the drivers and i unplugged a usb card that was connected to the m/board via a ribbon cable and its worked a treat. Thanks for your help on this and for finding the drivers for me im very great full. Thanks Paul