I just used the web access via buffalonas.com.  When I connect over the web access it shows my WAN ip followed by :9000

Tried setting up through dyndns.org but didint happen.

Not sure if you can change the port on the nas for the bit torrent access.  I know for web access you can if your setting up your own connection (manual dns) or am I just being a n00b?

Yip,

Turns out I am a total n00b and didnt forward 8080 on the router.

Works a treat now.  Cheers dudz

I forgot to mention, I got my replacement LinkStation a week or so ago and finally got a Linkstation backup procedure in place.

Theres about 500Gb of data on the drive - the backup took 3 days It would do about 200Gb of data then for some reason fold its arms, sit cross-legged and refuse to continue, which meant I would have to do a firmware reset to remove the backup job. It is an absolute pain in the arse!

Thankfully, since I was using a differential overwrite backup, it picked up from where it left off each time and now I have a satisfactory backup in place. Next, Ill be seeing if I can use sleep mode to automate startup of both units in the wee hours followed by a backup run and auto shutdown.

So for anyone thinking of doing a backup run of a large volume of data, save yourself some hassle and do it in smaller chunks, unless you want to be resetting the firmware once a day for three days. I wouldnt have minded this if not for the fact that on first boot PCCast goes apesh*t trying to create a media library and you have to spend 5 mins waiting for it to login to disable all that.

I might try Stevie Wonder firmware still and see how I get on.

My next step will be to try to work out how to send an email that will work its way to my phone over SMS (for free). Postcast server will aid the email part of this, but I havnt seen a free email > SMS service anyway. O2 offer such a thing to broadband customers that have an O2 phone, but not to their regular phone customers

Has anyone else had write/read speed issues? I bought two of these and I can only achieve 8-10 MB/s (megabytes) on each, which is pretty crap for a gigabit network. Does anyone know if this is the disks speed limits or might I be able to improve this by messing around with network settings?

Hmm. I got the same speeds via FTP. Admittedly I havent turned on jumbo frames (my network card doesnt support them).

Yep, I have a 1Gb switch supporting Jumbo Frames and Jumbo Frames set at 7k on the onboard NIC and in the Linkstation setup. Transfers in Windows Explorer are around 10-15Mbps whereas over FTP I was seeing around 100Mbps. Massive speed improvements over FTP.

If anyone gets a problem like I had on one of my units where it wont change the language from japanese, do the following :

you need to get telnet access to your system to do this.

once into you system as root you need to got to
/etc/melco

there is a file there called info.
type vi info
( on my system this was a blank file)
(press i )
now type
lang=english ( next press the esc key then :wq enter) this saves the file.