Newbie question about networked external hard drive

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Hello,

A question from a newbie regarding networked storage solutions:

I have a 100 Mbit LAN in my apartment, and currently I have a wireless
router connected to the LAN, so all computers run on WLAN. I'm now
considering buying a network hard drive, and connect it directly to the
LAN (and router) so I'll have access to it from all WLAN-connected
computers.

My newbie question is this: If I start downloading a file from the
internet to the LAN-connected network hard drive, will the data still
go through my WLAN connected computer (since the download was initiated
from the computer)?? In such case, I would lose the advantage of having
the hard drive connected directly to the LAN - if this is the case, I
would appreciate any suggestion for getting around this problem!

Thanks,

Hans
 
A question from a newbie regarding networked storage solutions
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I have a 100 Mbit LAN in my apartment, and currently I have a
wireless router connected to the LAN, so all computers run on WLAN.
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You havent said that very clearly. Why is there a 100
Mb lan at all if they are all running on the wireless lan ?
I'm now considering buying a network hard drive, and
connect it directly to the LAN (and router) so I'll have
access to it from all WLAN-connected computers.
Click to expand...
My newbie question is this: If I start downloading a file from
the internet to the LAN-connected network hard drive, will
the data still go through my WLAN connected computer
(since the download was initiated from the computer)??
Yes.

In such case, I would lose the advantage of having the hard
drive connected directly to the LAN - if this is the case, I would
appreciate any suggestion for getting around this problem!
Click to expand...

Hard to say until you spell out the setup more clearly.
 
Previously said:
Hello,
Click to expand...
A question from a newbie regarding networked storage solutions:
Click to expand...
I have a 100 Mbit LAN in my apartment, and currently I have a wireless
router connected to the LAN, so all computers run on WLAN. I'm now
considering buying a network hard drive, and connect it directly to the
LAN (and router) so I'll have access to it from all WLAN-connected
computers.
Click to expand...
My newbie question is this: If I start downloading a file from the
internet to the LAN-connected network hard drive, will the data still
go through my WLAN connected computer (since the download was initiated
from the computer)??
Click to expand...

Of course it will. There is no intelligence in the network that knows
there is a shortcut. There is no 'redirection' feature, especially
since the downloading computer needs to do a protocoll transformation
from the download protocol to the storage access protocoll.
In such case, I would lose the advantage of having
the hard drive connected directly to the LAN - if this is the case, I
would appreciate any suggestion for getting around this problem!
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Nothing you can do, except use a LAN-connected computer for this.

Arno
 
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