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Want to turn my WL520 into a NAS, how to do this?

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Want to turn my WL520 into a NAS, how to do this?

As title says, I have a ASUS WL520 router and noticed the USB port, I have Tomato flashed and was wondering what I had to do to have the NAS feature so I can have a small wireless network drive.
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You need to download a Tomato USB Mod firmware (or optionally DD-WRT w/USB) for your router before you will get any USB options on the settings page. Then you pretty much connect a USB hard drive to the port but don't expect great performance.

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Data transfer over USB 2.0 isn't very good so if you are going to be moving media files, it might serve you better to get a dedicated NAS with an ethernet connection.
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EgHead wrote: Data transfer over USB 2.0 isn't very good so if you are going to be moving media files, it might serve you better to get a dedicated NAS with an ethernet connection.

Nothing big, just a few documents here and there (think Dropbox but between family members) without utilizing an active Internet connection so that's why I didn't want to waste money on a dedicated NAS.

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