1. Need wireless router with connection to external drive for backups.

2. Need to choose between USB or ethernet/nas device for storage and backup. Mostly document storage.

Should I be concerned with this if I have setup a dropbox account for the office?

For the Apple Airport, I have read that a drive connected to usb has to be formatted to HFS, which I believe is not compatible (as in won't read when directly connected to a pc). Is that true?

Then that would leave me with the ethernet external drive correct?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

12/15/2010 10:58:05 AM

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2353484&tstart=45

Looks like there is hope of getting it to work under Windows 7, you may need a Mac to help set it all up. The HDD will HAVE to be Fat32 if you want it to work for Windows. So you're talking about a 4 gig file size limit and maybe a partition size limit too. People are having problems getting the HDD to work properly though. It sounds like a pain in the ass. But it may be worth a try to you.

12/15/2010 11:09:49 AM

I'm assuming you already have the airport extreme, and are trying to avoid buying something else.

It *can* be done, but the solution would be a hack, and for an office environment, I wouldn't recommend.

If I were you, i would leverage the high resale value of apple equipment, and sell the extreme, and buy a linksys/netgear/pick-your-favorite-brand router with a USB port and use that instead.

It will be much less of a headache.

12/15/2010 11:50:43 AM

I was going to purchased an extreme because I am an all mac household and wanted to hook up a usb hub to it. Sadly it did not allow mac spoofing, which I need for the network I use, so instead I went for the Netgear Wndr3700. Man do I love it. Breeze to setup and the usb on the back works with ntfs and fat drives, plug and play. My tivo and ps3 found a flash drive I plugged in with no setup needed.

My two cents.

12/15/2010 8:32:36 PM

Agree... I use WNDR3700 GREAT ROUTER.

12/15/2010 8:35:05 PM

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"i would leverage"

buzzwords ITT

12/15/2010 8:47:36 PM

Sold Airport Extreme.

Purchased Cisco E3000 and Netgear’s WNDR3700.

Netgear WNDR3700 is a fantastic device.

The cisco router was GARBAGE. The poor reviews were spot on. Glad I could return it.

Thanks for the help.

12/16/2010 11:53:51 PM

^^

i know fuck me, right? goddamn management lobotomy making me talk like a fucking dilbert cartoon.

earlier today i said "circle back" in a conversation.

^ yeah those new cisco valet routers are shit. it's embarrassing to me that they put a cisco logo on that crap.

[Edited on December 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM. Reason : .]

12/17/2010 12:04:08 AM

As long as you have never said '24x7' in a meeting or on a memo, you should be ok.

12/17/2010 12:38:00 AM

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"Purchased Cisco E3000"

did you get it for $107.59 with a $10 newegg gift card for yourself?

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2489700

12/17/2010 8:29:32 AM