Hi everyone!
I hope to give you all the data needed to help solving my issue...
I've a desktop Win7 64bit connected wired to the router and then occasionally via WiFi other devices are connecting to the router (2x iPhones + Nintendo DSi + PS3).
At the USB of my router I've a Lacie Premier Cinema 500mb (formatted XFS if I remember correctly, but anyway formatted via router and not FAT32).
Shouldn't be relevant as never problems with Internet connection, but the router is connected to DLink DSL-320B.
My problem is with the HD...
After formatting it, I had to transfer the files from PC (wired) to the HD and often during this long transferring operation (probably 200 gb totally, even if split in several copy/paste jobs) my pc were showing a failure message.
The reasons of this feature was that my PC was loosing the connection to the LAN.
This could happen anyway while tranferring, but much more often if I was using my browser or downloading or chatting and so on while transferring...
The problem were easy to sort, I'm not sure how to translate as I'm italian and I don't know how some menus are called but basically it should be understable this way:
- I go into the windows network menu, where you graphically see your pc connected to your house (the LAN) connected to a world (intenet)
- In the middle of the screen, at the left there's the image of an house, on the right I click on the LAN connection
- In the new smaller window I click on the right button at the bottom ("run diagnosis" if I translate the italian...)
Doing the above procedure, in a really few seconds the PC was automatically finding again the LAN, and windows o.s. after solving all by his own informed me that my pc had load the gateway.
I was thinking of a problem due to the massive copy/paste operation, unacceptable but once all the files were copied well... that's it!
But now that all the files to be shared are on the Lacie working as multimedia server the problem is not sorted at all.
In fact when I run a program like eMule or uTorrent on my pc, instructing him to download the files directly on the Lacie , the pc keep loosing the connection with the LAN.
This is an huge, unacceptable issue as I'm not in front of the pc, so I start downloading at 10 pm and the morning after I discover that all failed at a certain time.
It's not useful to sort the problem in few seconds as I've lost a night of downloading and basically I won't (never) be able to use the Hard Disk this way...
Of course I can go around the problem and download on the local pc and then transfer the files to the Lacie but what's the meaning of all this, why the router has an USB port?
I hope to be just a little stupid, so that this is a problem of mine and not of the router: I really hope something wrong upon setting it: can someone help???