d-link dns-320l

i think i'm becoming a d-link fan.

just got a d-link dns-320l.

i actually got in touch with a store that was offering me the dns-320 for a good price.

another store told me that the dns-320 has already been phased-out and what they have is the newer dns-320l for about 28% higher than the price quoted by the other store for the 320.

okay, so i told myself. i'll just settle for the 320. i still have to buy hard drives right?

so off i go to sm north edsa. pretty place. much better than what i expected as i've never been there. (where was i living at? lol!)

well anyway, guess what the store gave me? they gave me a 320l because their supplier sent them the later version for the price of the 320 they told me on the phone. good deal i might say.

so here we go.

the dns-320 and the newer dns-320l are network attached storage (nas) devices. it's like an enclosure for hard drives.

hard drive enclosures are plugged into a pc or a laptop via a usb plug or an e-sata plug.

a network attached storage is plugged instead to the network so all devices that have access to the network can access the drives. think of it as a local youtube because what i have in mind is put all my medias in there.

found a few problems which a few might have encountered.

i create an account on the nas using my windows account credentials. this way, i don't need to login each time i try to access the nas on my pc. incidentally, the my windows account has a capital letter, i.e., "Dennis".

i created an account on the nas using the same name: "Dennis".

problem: "CIFS: Authentication for user Dennis has failed." this means no access to the nas.

solution: create an account on the nas using lower case: i.e., "dennis".

problem solved.

if using p2p or the bittorrent protocol, the settings page may look confusing.

the maximum download rate and upload rates are actually in kilo BYTES per second (kBps) and not in kilo BITS per second (kbps). kilo is represented by a lower case "k." bytes are represented by an upper case "B" and bits are represented by a lower case "b".

maybe the d-link dns-320l web ui guys can correct the page /web/download_mgr/p2p_main.html.

and so far, i have noticed this too: after a torrent has been deleted (leaving the torrent list empty) but leaving the p2p setting to "enable", this nas is sending out udp packets continuously.  probably dht? but continuously? this still holds true even after the nas has been rebooted, cold or soft.

also, the "stop seeding when meet" would only accept value of 100 or lesser. c'mon guys, some people seed until they're more than 100. it's good to seed.

i'm calling d-link support now.