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I want a wireless NAS with a built-in print server

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imported_Tick

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I've been looking, and I can't seem to find anything that does all three. I can find print serving, I can find wireless, and I can find NAS, but I can not find all three in the same package.
 
I don't know the answer... but Wireless NAS doesn't seem to make much sense because wireless is so slow. What are you going to be doing with it?
 
Originally posted by: leegroves86
I don't know the answer... but Wireless NAS doesn't seem to make much sense because wireless is so slow. What are you going to be doing with it?
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Just backing up the a few files. Speed isn't a huge concern, and I don't need a lot of capacity, maybe 40gb.
 
Originally posted by: Tick
I can find print serving, I can find wireless, and I can find NAS, but I can not find all three in the same package.
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Those things don't exist together as an appliance type thingy because that is a fully functional server. Get an old PC, put a wireless card in it, plug the printer in, and you're set.
 
Print serving (CUPS)
Wireless (Any decent card with Linux support, atheros, intel, Ralink)
NAS (Samba)

easy 🙂

my friend is moving his duall 866 rig to a dual PPro rig for his nas, as he is tired of the whine and higher power (ppro is passive cooling, lower power requirements)
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
my friend is moving his duall 866 rig to a dual PPro rig for his nas, as he is tired of the whine and higher power (ppro is passive cooling, lower power requirements)
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Gotta love those old intel dualies. I have a couple of P3-Ss on a serverworks board running debian and it's the most stable thing I've ever had.


 
Why do you need to run a NAS wirelessly? Noise?

If you plan on accessing a wireless NAS device with a PC connected wirelessly, be aware that you will get terrible speeds. Wireless to wireless transfer rates are terrible because wireless APs are not able to transmit and receive simultaneously, so your bandwidth is cut in half.
 
Originally posted by: mjia
Why do you need to run a NAS wirelessly? Noise?

If you plan on accessing a wireless NAS device with a PC connected wirelessly, be aware that you will get terrible speeds. Wireless to wireless transfer rates are terrible because wireless APs are not able to transmit and receive simultaneously, so your bandwidth is cut in half.
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Aye. In addition, periodic or one-time occurnces can cause havok for wireless, so I would NEVER do that.

Finally, you will REALLY be hurting performance for other wirleess clients o nthe network.
 
Originally posted by: mjia
Why do you need to run a NAS wirelessly? Noise?

If you plan on accessing a wireless NAS device with a PC connected wirelessly, be aware that you will get terrible speeds. Wireless to wireless transfer rates are terrible because wireless APs are not able to transmit and receive simultaneously, so your bandwidth is cut in half.
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yeah they can....

I know, because...
1. If you do a 10 MB file transfer, where does it buffer the traffic (most don't have enough memory to buffer even small amounts)
2. I have done side by side FTP get, put get scripts on 4 laptops at one time, offset by a few seconds.
 
Originally posted by: metalstorm203
Originally posted by: Tick
I've been looking, and I can't seem to find anything that does all three. I can find print serving, I can find wireless, and I can find NAS, but I can not find all three in the same package.
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http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=5528285&SourceID=k15506
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But from viewsonic?!

Either way, seperate devices is the way to go. If for example the HD fails on that viewsonic, your network will be down whiile you replace it (assuming that is user-replacable). God Forbit you have to RMA the whole thing.
 
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