2012-05-13, 17:40
This is rather... advanced and took me quite a while to get right.
I have a Netgear WNDR 3700v2 wireless router that I have hung a USB hub and 3 USB drives.
I replaced the Netgear router firmware (this is called "flashing") with the embedded Linux distribution OpenWRT.
I configured the Netgear router to be a NFS server (router acting as a NAS) sharing the USB drives.
I now have very good performance over the Wireless N 5 Ghz network with my ATV2/XBMC playing SD, DVD and 720p video.
Unfortunately the WNR3500L is not on the OpenWRT supported list. DD-WRT supports it. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNR3500L. I have not tried to setup dd-wrt as a NAS so I can't offer guidance on how difficult it is.
You SHOULD be able to get your setup to work with the Netgear firmware but if you have the budget, I'd get a dedicated NAS.
I have a Netgear WNDR 3700v2 wireless router that I have hung a USB hub and 3 USB drives.
I replaced the Netgear router firmware (this is called "flashing") with the embedded Linux distribution OpenWRT.
I configured the Netgear router to be a NFS server (router acting as a NAS) sharing the USB drives.
I now have very good performance over the Wireless N 5 Ghz network with my ATV2/XBMC playing SD, DVD and 720p video.
Unfortunately the WNR3500L is not on the OpenWRT supported list. DD-WRT supports it. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNR3500L. I have not tried to setup dd-wrt as a NAS so I can't offer guidance on how difficult it is.
You SHOULD be able to get your setup to work with the Netgear firmware but if you have the budget, I'd get a dedicated NAS.
