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Our old extreme network seems to stream just fine- quite a distance apart through walls to our Apple TV. I was kinda pleasantly surprised.

Does anyone know if the attached drive can be used to access from the internet, not only from the network?

Too bad the ethernet ports run at an anemic 100Mbps - a bottleneck for Gigabit Ethernet-enabled Macs.

@J... it can be accessed from the internet, but I'm not sure how. I originally got the instructions from someone here on MDN but lost them. Wait arround, they'll post it again.

http://mytop-in.net/go/030207160042.html


http://www.topping.com.ua/go/030207160042.html
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Yes, the AE can allow one to "mount" the hard drive over the internet fairly easily.

There is a simple setting to enable in the Airport Utility. Then simply use the Go -> Connect menu item and enter the IP address of your AE. A dialog pops up asking for your credentials, and then will list the partitions on the remote drive to mount on your local desktop.

Of course, you have to leave the drive attached to the AE running.

It works, and works great!

Will it switch frequencies automatically or is it manual?

The fact that a connected USB drive will not spin down when not used is a bummer. WHo wants to run a USB drive 24/7?

One guy:

Agreed. I am concerned about premature wear and tear on the constantly running drive. Bummer.

I suppose one can invest in an internet-enabled power bar to switch on the drive when needed.

My connnected USB drive goes quiesent when not manually connected to a networked CPU. Make sure you de-select the "Automatically discover airport disks" in the "airport disk utility" to insure that the connected disk is not automatically linked to any networked CPU.

Many claim that spinning hard disk up and down repeatedly is more wear on a drive than leaving spin all the time. Unless heat is a concern in some crappy USB enclosure. Or, of course, energy consumption.

Leaving a drive running is no more wear than spinning it up and down 15 times a day.

Mine just came today (1 hour ago), set up was a breeze. Now for an AppleTV

@ Barry & One Guy

We had an old Apple Quadra from the early 1990's that acted as a 4D database server for jobs in our office. Had only been turned off once (to move to another building) other than that it's run non stop until a few months ago when we replaced it with a Web Based Database--not because it was damaged. That's quite a run time.

Replaced a G4 Tower acting as a Server since January 2000, just turned that off a couple years ago, replaced it with a G5. The G4 was then donated to be someone's home computer. G5's been running almost 3 years non-stop. All problem free.

> Many claim that spinning hard disk up and down repeatedly is more wear on a drive than leaving spin all the time.

I agree completely.

Google published a recent article in which they found that drives that were left running continously tended to last years longer than those that were turned on and off regularly.

I'd love to use this with my titanium powerbook, but I can't find anything that claims a 3rd party 802.11 cardbus card will work in it.

To clarify: 802.11*g* card for the PC Card slot.

I'm an idiot. 802.11*n*. (Moderator can delete my post if possible.)

I hooked up my ipod mini to it. Makes it a snap to move a file between the pc and any of the macs in my house.