Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
Had a quick look, but no, it just opened as normal.
I imagined I noticed a slowing down of t'net since the unit was plugged in, but thought I was imagining it. Tonight, on another dedicated computer, Netflix failed shortly after starting a film. I tried to start it, but it was locked solid. Pulled the plug on the black box, and away it went. Coincidence? Maybe, but I've never had a streaming problem before. Well, not before me PSA went up.
Sounds like there was a LOT of network traffic going on at the time, which would have saturated the link - this is possibly due to whatever you're using to make the drive appear as a local drive.
I would suggest you uninstall whatever it was, and use the drive purely as a NAS by mapping a network drive. That would be far safer than using any proprietary method you suggest. The industry standard way of doing what you want is called iSCSI, and Windows 7 has a built in iSCSI initiator so the next time you go buying network storage look for something with iSCSI
