orcon genius - adding usb harddrive or something else itunes

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Morgenmuffel

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#116409 28-Apr-2013 17:21

Not exactly an orcon issue but well i ended up in this forum

Orcon genius lite.

Wifey has 10yr old laptop with fairly small hd we have around 20 - 30gb of music, i was thinking stick it on an external harddrive and plug it into the Genius (and yes after reading this thread http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=82&topicid=87731 I realise it needs to be an externally powered harddrive) so we all have access to it.

My question is this what are access times like the laptop is wired to the genius
And will it play nicely with iTunes, and i don't want to hear "apple sux, don't use crapple stuff", itunes has Genius mix, and quite frankly its brilliant 90% of the time.

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FireEngine

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#806865 28-Apr-2013 20:16

That will entirely depend on what caddy you put the HD in, some are better than others.

Assuming you get a decent one it should be more than able to stream music, video might be different entirely though...

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#806901 28-Apr-2013 21:19

FireEngine: That will entirely depend on what caddy you put the HD in, some are better than others.

From reading the OPs post I get the feeling that it is just the data he will put on the external drive, (not a remove HDD and mount in an external housing project) and to be honest the HDDs in today's USB enclosures will probably run rings round a 10 yr old laptop HDD...

Morgenmuffel

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#807646 29-Apr-2013 19:45

Probably should have been clearer, The genius router can act as a file server provided a harddrive is attached, I was just wondering what the speeds would be like, would it be fairly similar to accessing the current harddrive, Which is fairly slow as the wife has about 50 programs running at anyone time.

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ubergeeknz

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#807662 29-Apr-2013 20:17

I'd suggest trying it out with a USB stick or something before spending any money on an external drive specially... in my experience it is not very fast.

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#807787 30-Apr-2013 03:37

I found that with the 2TB WD 3.5" I bought was rather slow and sluggish via the Genius yes it worked but at about 1/10th the speed it was capable of if connected via the PC and trying to copy over vast amounts of music and video was painfully slow at one stage it said it was going to take 29 days to copy 37GB of music (WTF) speed was going up and down from 500KBps to 2MBps tops

MadEngineer

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#813248 7-May-2013 20:40

genius router is rubbish. no need to expand on that, mentioned plenty of times on this forum.

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ubergeeknz

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#813287 7-May-2013 21:18

MadEngineer: genius router is rubbish. no need to expand on that, mentioned plenty of times on this forum.

Bit unfair to say it's rubbish. It does the job it's intended for quite well enough. The USB port is a bonus, and it does work, it's just not very fast.

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MadEngineer

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#813329 7-May-2013 22:14

until you have a problem, orcon ask you to reset the device or even they reset it on your behalf and suddenly it's no longer configured how you like, undoing the sharing setup.

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linw

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#813333 7-May-2013 22:22

And no other provider asks you to reset their modem when there is a problem? Hard to see how this makes the Genius rubbish.

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#813338 7-May-2013 22:32

see other threads in this forum. explain why the speed on mine slowly drops over an hour and requires the port to be reset (reconnect the lead between the ont and the router)? why i get much better performance with another router? i've already had a replacement.

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#813368 7-May-2013 23:08

MadEngineer: see other threads in this forum. explain why the speed on mine slowly drops over an hour and requires the port to be reset (reconnect the lead between the ont and the router)? why i get much better performance with another router? i've already had a replacement.

I'm sorry to hear that you've had problems with them. Since I never got to look at the problem, I can't explain it. It's not something I've seen in testing with 100/50 UFB services, and in our testing, at least on the latest firmware, Genius outperformed the Cisco SRP 521 (green) on throughput by a good margin. For a 2-3 year old router platform I think that's not bad.

Anyhow, we are now waaaaay off topic. To the OP, how did you get on with solving your problem?