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Reply #30 on: March 19, 2010, 00:48:00 AM
Good luck with it, I was really tempted but being honest with myself I dont need anything beyond what it does already, Ive turned all the features off pretty much.

I just enabled FTP again to try it out. OMG :w00t:

140mbps, I just shifted 3.4Gb in 3mins 20 seconds! I cant believe I didnt try that before! :nana:

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Reply #31 on: March 19, 2010, 07:22:08 AM
I told you FTP was faster :D

I cant help but tinker, so Im currently in the process of installing Stevie Wonder.
Hopefully I can remove the old version of Twonky and install my legal new version.



Ok.  The SW firmware is based on the Japanese firmware, and takes your box to version 2.20.
It seems a lot more responsive than the 2.11 firmware.
The BitTorrent integration is direct from Buffalo themselves.
Pre-Installed Twonky is registered, but of an old version.  This can be removed and the latest version installed, providing you have a key.

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Reply #32 on: March 19, 2010, 09:04:51 AM
Woo the Stevie Wonder was just what i was after. I basically just wanted the stock option with the ability to torrent :D cheers :)
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Reply #33 on: March 19, 2010, 09:25:45 AM
Ive lost access to the torrent server.  Page just hangs, even after reboot.

Not sure if this is because Im asking too much of the box (3xtorrents, and updating my twonky library).
The last accessed date on the files is increasing though, so I think its still running.

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Reply #34 on: March 19, 2010, 09:43:06 AM
Nimrod how were you planning on using more than one usb drive? a usb hub?
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Reply #35 on: March 19, 2010, 10:43:16 AM
Yeah thats the plan. USB hub(s) and as many disks as I can throw at it.

Looking in /dev/ it appears as though it might allow up to 10 USB disks but well see.

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Reply #36 on: March 19, 2010, 12:44:17 PM
Shame it doesnt do that as standard (or with the SteavieWonder). I only have 2 usable externals at the moment but it would be nice to easily expand.
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Reply #37 on: March 19, 2010, 23:57:28 PM
Blimey, this is not for anyone who actually has a life !

Right.
Finally got Freelink back on the device; now to try and remember what the hell I was trying to do when I destroyed it last time :D

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Reply #38 on: March 22, 2010, 09:23:42 AM
lol I still have unboxed mine, sitting back in shrewsbury still.

So far looks like Im going to stick StevieWonder and new version of Twonky on it, best options Ive come across so far :)
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Reply #39 on: March 22, 2010, 14:06:56 PM
I didnt get much chance to play over the weekend but I think I have learnt 1 thing:

You cannot flash firmware onto a device that has had custom partitions setup. It looks like the firmware flasher requires that sda1 and sda4 are default.

This means that if you want to increase the size of those partitions, you have to install the firmware and then use something like the gparted live cd to change the patition sizes.

Im going to have a play with the Stevie Wonder firmware this week I think.

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Reply #40 on: March 22, 2010, 17:41:54 PM
I think there is a custom updater, but Im not sure what it would do in that position.

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Reply #41 on: March 22, 2010, 23:56:24 PM
Stuck the Stevie Wonder firmware on. That was a hell of a lot more straight forward compared to getting a Linux image on there !

It seems ok but the torrent and nzbget web interfaces seem to crash quite a lot :( Im still not 100% convinced that Im configuring these things correctly but as the guides are more "discussion" than walkthrough its really difficult to know exactly who has what configured where on their working setups.

Still, I managed to the SW FW on and get nzbGet w/ nzbGetWeb installed (and working) in a couple of hours. Where as I spent in excess of a week getting nowhere near that with Freelink :D

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Reply #42 on: March 23, 2010, 07:08:55 AM
If you work out how to get an FTP Client on there, Ill be your bestest friend.

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Reply #43 on: March 23, 2010, 12:03:01 PM
If you bootstrap your Linkstation so that you can install Optware IPKG packages, youd have access to several FTP Clients.

Ive done this on top of the Stevie Wonder firmware but it is possible to do it on top of Stock too.

Boot into EM mode and run ACP to blitz the root password.
Telnet in and then follow all this http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Ipkg_on_the_Linkstation_(for_end-users) making sure to do the ARM bits where necessary :)

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Reply #44 on: March 23, 2010, 12:53:16 PM
Man this thing sounds like its getting silly confusing! :P
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