Will this back up all the data on my computer (windows)? Pictures, etc. and will it let me have better quality Wi-Fi than a netgear n300?
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Not exactly sure about the quality of the wi-fi. I have no problems. You will make a backup of your entire hard drive though. Plenty of room
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Yeah, Seagate has their app available on the app store from where you can upload anything from your phone to the HDD over WiFi.
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Your question doesn't make sense without more information Susan. A Netgear N300 can handle hundreds of clients, but if you mean that with 10 concurrently using wifi it bogs down, that is a limitation of wifi itself which would be present with any 11n wifi router. If you mean wired (ethernet) clients, again you have higher bandwidth LAN going to lower bandwidth WAN (internet) so all clients compete for available bandwidth. However, if you reflash this (or another compatible model) to DD-WRT firmware (a web search will provide info on doing so), you can set up QOS to prioritize or deprioritize certain types of traffic and/or client systems. Another thing you can do is set up more than one wifi access point, for example your Netgear plus this one, set up on different channels a few numbers apart, then split up wifi client systems between them to balance the wifi load, with some connecting to this and others connecting to the Netgear. I may be barking up the wrong tree. More information would help but generally speaking your Netgear N300 should have been able to handle 10 clients with something else whether it be wifi standards or your internet connection, being the bottleneck. Keep in mind that if your Netgear, or any consumer grade router or switch for that matter, is a few years old then it may be suffering from damage, particularly capacitor rot becomes an insidious problem as they approach 5 years old and beyond (Or shorter in hotter environments) and effective throughput will begin to decrease as lack of hardware stability starts to cause lost packets and a large # of resends. I have owned many Netgear products and find that sometimes it is the router or switch itself and other times their wall wart AC-DC adapter which becomes flaky. On those I had with a flaky adapter, it was a very common 12V, 1A with a standard polarity DC barrel jack so it wasn't hard to find a suitable replacement lying around to test whether that helped.
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I bought the drive to use as a drive to store books, movies and photos. I'm not sure if it is a backup clone of an intel Mac with Mavericks. I know it works very well for what I bought it for. However, I am getting the Airport by Apple to use with Time Machine. It should arrive at my house today. That boosts your wi-fi as well as backs up automatically.
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Typically, you use the USB port to connect the router to the Internet and then other devices connect via WiFi to access the Internet and the USB shared storage. As for the scenario you described, I doubt it will work...
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I have no idea where these yes and/or maybe answers are coming from. Even if your router is one of the few with a USB interface specifically for hard drives (airport extreme is one), you can't call this USB unit a network hard drive. A network hard drive has an ethernet or wifi interface, which these do not have. The only correct answer is no, it won't work as a network hard drive. Are we all talking about the same exact Toshiba? Maybe not since Amazon likes to make changes and lump things together as one, but I doubt any in this series have ever been network capable.
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The first time it is plugged in it backs up everything. After that it should back up only new data, unless you request it to back up everything.
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Depends more on the brand. I have a 3 TB Western digital my book essential. It seems to support it as it recognizes it over the network. Currently streaming via DLNA is problematic though but that is more of an issue with the firmware than the hard drive. I believe if you google the netgear webpage there is a listing of supported drives.
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It doesn't, but should. This product would be utterly fantastic if you could record directly to hard drive. I don't like monthly-yearly bills. Oh well--this companies lack of foresight is another companies opportunity. Yes--I feel wifi enabled home security will be huge in the future. I am currently working on a home security systemusing raspberry, or ardino. When completed I will post the free schematics on physibles.com
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I'm not 100% sure but it mentions on the flyer that came you can back up media games, movies and music from PCI laptop and mobile devices. Doesn't specify game consoles per say. I have to designate my file to be sent to the J drive. Can you tell your console where to save the data to? Uses a usb connection
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It is a network storage device. Windows should be able to see it over the network, and you should be able to map a drive to it.
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I purchased a WNDR4700 and 3 t/b WD30EFRX hard drive it formatted and works fine. Software on the Netgear is another mater.
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Hi F. Lee ~~ The key to good wi-fi connections seems to be to upgrade programs and drivers on any device. As for Windows 8, I LOVE it! It's intuitive, practical and fun. Take that naysayers. :) The Acer Iconia is fast, the screen is beautiful, and it's reliable.
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I have/am using it. I keep it in a closet behind where my computer is. I ran a long usb cable through the wall. Plan is to bolt it down to prevent theft. The mac mini backs up via the usb. My MacBook Pro is configured to backup over the wireless to the same drive. All works well now. Although it took a while to get the wifi backup to work. I feel a lot better knowing that in a fire, I can dash out and not worry (too much) about losing all my photos, music, and movies. I wish Apple would make time capsule fire and water proof.
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Certainly! It creates a new wifi network of it's own. you can use SD cards up to 2 TB with it to carry your entire video & Audio library. You can even switch out memory cards for more space!
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No.You also will need a wireless router to connect to the wired network to transmit and receive the signal.The Netgear N300 Wireless Router would be a good choice. Make sure your old PC has a USB port to plug this adapter into.
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I don't have this hard drive yet, they have not sent it back to me. But it is not a network storage device, it connects to your computer via firewire or USB. At least that's what it should do.