Can I create my own network at home?

Question

Okay, this is the situation: I bought a cloud network storage disk to store and stream my videos and movies from. (WD My Cloud, to be exact). There is no option to transfer the movies directly from my devices to the storage until, and the upload speed is unbearably slow (Left it going overnight, and it completed only 8 GB out of 1.5TB!!!)

I thought the answer would be to buy a faster router, so I bought a Nighthawk X6 that has a Tri band and speeds up to 1.3 Gbps on a 5Ghz band, but it hasn't helped at all.

It is possible to set up a network that can use the router to transfer the files directly through the router rather than the Internet? I don't feel like waiting until Christmas to have everything transferred!!!

Answer 1

Looking through the manual for that device, its normal connectivity is directly through ethernet to attached computers etc. on the same LAN.



It's remote access / internet side is an option.



If you have followed the initial setup in the manual and found it's shared folders in Windows Explorer / Network places or whatever (not via the so-called "cloud" tools or a web browser) then you are connecting via your LAN.



Once you see the shared folder, you just copy & paste to/from that and other folders on the machine as you would between folders directly on the machine, you do not need any other software or tools.



See around page 22 in the manual - linked below.





You will only get maximum transfer speed if you are using Gigabit ethernet all the way through; WiFi is a waste of time in many places, it's often overloaded to the point of being useless.



If it's a well built unit you should get 90MB per second or so, with no other devices active on the network.

That's a gigabyte every eleven seconds, something like five hours for your 1.5TB file.





[In my personal opinion, any device sold using the word "cloud" that does not actually provide distributed and replicated storage - what could storage is about - is just an advertising scam, but anyway is should still work as a NAS device.]

Answer 2

is there some reason you are attempting to transfer by wifi? using an ethernet cable shall be faster period! the speed of the device you are transferring from to get to the my cloud device which should be wired to your router shall more than likely set the overall transfer rate... with any local storage device, unplug the internet while making the initial transfers... since you are moving files from some device into the my cloud unit, you do not need the internet (or anyother network traffic) that can interfere with the transfer speed...



wired is always faster 'cause it runs full duplex where wifi is always 1/2 duplex and is slower... be sure both devices are 1gig ethernet for the fastest speed in transfer... also, if you have more than one device to get moved only transfer one unit at a time don't try from all three at once...

Answer 3

ya sure. I can not give you full details on the comment section. I'll tell you according to steps and incase don't know that then you can search those steps on google for more details.



1) Plan your network.

2)Create an address plan.

3) Write "192.168.2.x" in the corner somewhere.

4) Assign host addresses within the range of 1 to 254 to each computer.

5) Write down the subnet mask near the network address.

6) Connect your network.

7) Boot all the computers connected to the network.

8) Configure the computers for networking.

9) Verify connectivity.

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

The device should like a NAS, and that is the fastest way to access things. The cloud part is convenience/internet access/sync/backup, it will run dog slow for most things.



My understanding it supports:

samba/cifs/nfs



I think you need to get the device to support one of those. Anything else (http) is going to be over the internet.

Answer 6

A faster wireless router is not going to help if your computer does not have that faster type of wireless hardware.



It would probably be best to connect everything using Ethernet at least temporarily while attempting to transfer. But even that will depend upon whether everything is gigabit, or if your computer or something else in the path limits that to 100 Mbps. It also depends upon the speed of the drive(s) in whatever NAS you got for local cloud storage and drive speed in your own computer.



But I do not understand that jumbled sentence about not being able to transfer directly to the local device. It would not make any sense to have a local network storage device that you cannot access directly over your local network.

Answer 7

Is there some reason you are attempting to transfer by wifi? Using an ethernet cable will be faster period! The speed of the device you are transferring FROM to get to the My Cloud device which should be wired to your router will more than likely set the overall transfer rate. With any local storage device, unplug the internet while making the initial transfers. Since you are moving files from some device into the My Cloud unit, you do not need the internet (Or anyother network traffic) that can interfere with the transfer speed.



Wired is always faster because it runs FULL DUPLEX where wifi is always 1/2 duplex and is slower. Be sure both devices are 1gig ethernet for the fastest speed in transfer. Also, if you have more than ONE device to get moved only transfer ONE unit at a time don't try from all three at once.

Answer 8

Find out the IP address of the device in question. Use Advance IP Scaner from this link.



http://cleansofts.org/download/advanced-ip-scanner.html



Once you run that app, you should see every device on the network...including your My Cloud.



Once you dine the address of the device, go to your file explorer and in the address bar type in that address. For example if your device is on 192.168.1.200, type in "\\192.168.1.200" (without the quotes) and you should see the device pop up. This is the direct connection to the device on the network.



To speed things up in the future, you can map the location as a local drive letter.



Once done, you're now transferring the files via the local network and not by going out on the net and then back again.