Linksys WGA11B game adapter<\/a>, for example). Therefore, you must remember to pre-select the new profile before you turn off the unit and go to the new location.<\/p>\nMost users will probably choose to leave the drive in one place, but the Tritton Wireless NAS can’t be set up as a node on an existing WLAN. Instead it must function as an independent access point in order to provide wireless connectivity to its internal storage. This means that in most home scenarios, when you want to access the Tritton’s storage you must associate to entirely different SSID then the one you with your wireless router to access the Internet. This presents an obvious problem if you want to simultaneously stream audio from the Tritton and browse the Web, for example.<\/p>\n
While you can get around this issue by giving the Tritton a path back to your router via CAT5 cable, doing so introduces two additional problems. First, by tethering the Tritton you lose the placement flexibility a pure wireless connection affords you. Second, this arrangement opens up your Internet connection and the rest of your network (not to mention the data stored on the Tritton) to any to every client within range. This latter fact would be less of a concern if the Tritton provided a form of encryption more robust than WEP, but it doesn’t. The Tritton also lacks even a rudimentary form of access control like MAC filtering, making less than the ideal place to park sensitive data. (Tritton says that the ability to join an existing network and WPA support is planned for a firmware upgrade sometime this quarter.)<\/p>\n
File Sharing Weak<\/b>
\nUnfortunately, the Tritton Wireless NAS provides very little flexibility when it comes to file sharing capabilities. For example, the device provides a half-dozen pre-defined shared folders\u2014 one is labeled public, and the rest share1 through share5. While these folders can be renamed to something more meaningful, you can’t delete any of them, nor can you create new shares of your own.<\/p>\n
As far as managing access is concerned, the Tritton Wireless NAS is equally unyielding. For starters, the unit can’t obtain a list of users from a Windows domain, though this is forgivable given the fact that the Tritton is designed to be used in home\/SOHO environments.<\/p>\n
Less justifiable is the fact that the unit doesn’t offer user-level access at all\u2014 instead, share-level security is the only option available. Each of the aforementioned shared folders can be configured to allow read only or read\/write access, or both (depending on the password used). This type of access may be sufficient for some, but many will find it limiting.<\/p>\n
Finally, all file access must be done through the conventional Windows networking model of browsing Network Neighborhood or mapped drives. It would be nice if the Tritton also offered file access via Web browser, at least for purposes of streaming media.<\/p>\n
Tritton includes a bundled client application which can be used to backup data (including open files) to the unit.<\/p>\n
When dealing with network storage, a question arises as to how disk error checking and defragmentation operations are performed, and in the case of the Tritton, you can’t initiate either of these manually via the administration console. The company says the unit’s file system continually checks for errors and always stores files contiguously to minimize any fragmentation problems.<\/p>\n
The Tritton Wireless NAS has a lot of potential, but unfortunately many current flaws as well. In its current iteration it leaves much to be desired, but with new firmware that addresses the issues discussed above, it will be worthy of consideration as convenient centralized storage for your wireless network.<\/p>\n
Review appeared originally on\u00a0Wi-Fi Planet.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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