How can I setup a network storage on my wireless linksys network?
Q. I would like to hook my external hard drive to my network so my wife and I can save to that drive rather than our laptops. We don’t have a computer hooked to the router. We have the modem, a linksys wireless router and that’s it. What do you suggest I do?
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If you have an external drive with an Ethernet port, you just connect it with a cable to the router. It doesn’t matter if your computers are connected with wires or not to the router.
What you’re looking for is called an NAS, a Network Attached Storage. It’s an external disk drive with some network smarts that plugs into your router with ethernet cable. MaximumPC magazine reviewed a bunch of these and their top rated one was the QNAP TS-109-Pro. Here’s their review, along with a pretty good explanation of this class of devices.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/qnap_ts_109_pro
Google “network attached storage” for more info.
The NAS drive will need to connected to a wireless server to be able to be seen by the network. Here are a few folks that make the product you want
http://www.naswireless.com/
Or you could get a NAS and attach it to teh router and both computers can use it