Icy box

[Wossi]

I bought an icy box as I figured it would be the easiest way to share stuff across the home network, but I've run into a snag. Apparently it acts like a dhcp server just like my router is doing and when I run the icy box setup it can't find itself :(

It does mention something about running 2 dhcp servers in the manual but I know more about how to charm women than networking stuff :(

Any kind soul had any experience with this kind of thing before and willing to help me out please?

[Burble]

Ultimately you want to disable the DHCP server in the Icybox.

Power off your router so that the Icybox is doing all the DHCP stuff, release and renew the IP address on your PC so that it'll get an IP address from the the Icybox. Do the setup, disable DHCP on the Icybox. Power on your router again, release and renew your IP address and you should be up and running.

[SidewinderINC]

is it the NAS-4220 box?

I have this box, and it did take a lot of setting up for sure! you can turn the DHCP off easily though. the media server part of it was the hardest to set up.

[Del Lardo]

Surely there is some kind of web interface on the NAS so you can turn the DHCP server off?

Best bet is to plug PC directly into NAS and log into web interface so you can turn dhcp server off (and dhcp client on if required).

[Wossi]

Managed to get it sorted, plugged it straight into the router and it found it. Just trying to move the files over now.

[kaiowas]

Coincidence but I happen to have just got one of these today as well. Was hoping I could just drop my drives in and be more or less up and running straight away like any other external drive, unfortunately it needs to start with clean drives, means i'm currently trying to find somewhere to temporarily dump 300 odd GB of data from one of the drives that's going in there.

[Wossi]

The one thing I don't like is the transfer rate, it takes about about 3 hours to transfer 80gb or so onto it :( I've got about 800gb to go on there in total with about 500 left :(

[kaiowas]

Interesting, I started putting files on it last night and it seemed very slow so I went to bed. I put that down to the fact I was transferring over wireless though and was going to do it properly over a wire this evening.

[Del Lardo]

The one thing I don't like is the transfer rate, it takes about about 3 hours to transfer 80gb or so onto it :( I've got about 800gb to go on there in total with about 500 left :(

I make that ~7.5mb/s which if you are running over 100mbit ethernet connection is about right. If you are running over GigEthernet then that is rather slow, I can get ~33mb/s (my laptop HDD maxing out) from my Netgear101

[Wossi]

I'm running it over a 100mbit network and the current transfer speed is 6.02 MB/sec, last night is was 4.5. Put it this way, it's going to take 12h 38m to transfer 267GB :(