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This probably isn't the right thread, but hey. EG techie hive mind, your help is needed! We had a local outage on Virgin fibre broadband on Tuesday. It came back up within a few hours (I know this because I work in a shared office using Virgin in the same exchange), but was still down at home. I tried rebooting the Super Hub (which is in modem mode) and my router, to no avail. So last night I called Virgin's broadband help line. Long story short, it turns out that I was connected, but that a device on my home network had been constantly uploading a large amount of data over the last day or so, roughly since the outage it seems - the guy said about 1.2GB an hour. He couldn't tell me which device it was, but I noticed my NAS was running and switched that off. Suddenly internet service was perfect again. What could that have been? I'm not aware of any processes running on my NAS that would upload any data at all, let alone that much. It's not running any fileshare/torrent services (to my knowledge). Is there any kind of app I can run to see where it was sending the data? Or would I only be able to see that if it was currently sending the data? (The NAS is still switched off for now.) HAVE I BEEN HACKED?? etc etc Ta. |
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monkman76 18,987 posts
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Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoWhat model of NAS do you have?
All I can say is that on my NAS I've have had multiple attempts to log in the telnet service, all from china and russia. So I've disabled telnet altogether. -
monkman76 18,987 posts
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Registered 13 years agoQNAP, er TS-110 or something like that. It's fairly old. OK, I'll maybe look into disabling that, thanks.
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Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoDid a quick google and that nas has “System Logs (requires admin access to the web administration page of the NAS)". -
monkman76 18,987 posts
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Registered 13 years agoOh nice one. Guess I should have done that myself .gif)
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iancognito 2,476 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBump for an updated discussion as the original posts are a couple of years old now and things may have changed. How useful is NAS (updated for 2015)?
Being lazy I forget to plug laptops into external drives which made me look at wireless storage. I saw this WD My Cloud but a lot of people are complaining about speed and reliability.
I'm not too worried about streaming and sharing files and I tend to save important files online periodically but I'm aware I don't have a routine backup which could come back to bite me one day. Am I better off being less of a lazy shit and plugging in a hard disk once a day or has anyone found that FreeNAS or Synology drives have changed their lives? -
Synology NAS changed my life a few years ago, now not so much as majority of stuff I stream, but IMO they are the ones to go for.
I've never had anything worth backing up, so can't help on that score -
If you're using Windows 8 or 10 then File History is a fantastic backup tool (think time machine for Macs, or at least I'm sure that's what MS were thinking of!)
Setting up regular automated backups to a device on your network is well worth doing (but keep doing manual cloud backups too obviously)
If you've got the money and technical know how to set this kind of thing up, then go for it. I couldn't go back to manually plugging a drive in every time I wanted to do a backup!
As for what's good... Fuck knows. I use a microserver, but they can be overkill if all you want to do is back up a few files... -
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Armoured_Bear 31,233 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI'm curious too, a few mates have NASes and I've considered them for ages but it doesn't seem worth the expense.
I have an iMac in the spare room which is the main computer and has all media there which can be played anywhere using Apple TV, IPads, Airplay etc.
I backup to an external disk.
It seems that the only benefit to a NAS would be being able to switch off my PC at night which doesn't matter as it's in the spare room and goes to sleep anyway.
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Oh, yeah. Never bothered with one in the end. PC still automatically wakes up and streams what it's supposed to, then sleeps again. I thought all I'd really do was add a further source of possible complications. -
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Honestly the USP for my NAS is that I can throw it a Magnet link from my phone and it'll Torrent away without me having to have a 'proper' computer switched on. -
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Psiloc 6,366 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI thought the majority of routers came with a USB port to plug in an external drive now if you want a NAS? Surely dedicated NAS devices are a bit of a throw back now. Money better spent on Dropbox if you ask me. -
Well, yeah, again, my NAS is about 5 years old. It has had its moment in the sun, and now is a £200 BitTorrent solution. Actually it's also a print server and controls (and records) my security camera. I live in the ghetto. -
monkman76 18,987 posts
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Registered 13 years agoDirtbox wrote:
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Heh, reading monkman76's post above I was reminded that loads of NAS boxes get compromised and wind up being used as a seedbox for child porn or farming bitcoin.
Have fun with that.
Mine is now switched off except when I need it. I.e. it's largely pointless. I really should try to find out what was causing all that traffic.
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iancognito 2,476 posts
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Registered 14 years agoInteresting. Sounds like remembering to plug in a hard disk periodically for speed (unless that WD I linked to above actually works) and also using cloud storage for safety might be the way to go. Most things have moved towards online streaming for me (Netflix, Spotify, etc.) so it was more to do with a convenient way of making local backups from a laptop unless someone convinced me otherwise.
My Windows PC is plugged into an external disk but my MacBook gets used around the house, so that's the one that really misses the regular home backups.
Synology look like the best overall but are expensive but not sure it makes sense for me now. I quite like the idea of building a server of some sort but also another part of me doesn't care enough to do it. -
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Registered 18 years agoI have an HP microserver which I installed synology OS onto. Very handy, plex server, sickbeard to automatically download my TV shows and ds download to download torrents etc using my phone or browser. Dropbox etc is fine but not the same thing. Dropbox isn't a substitute for a media server, Netflix etc is. Xpenology is a good site, look it up. You can turn any old box into a synology NAS if you fancy a project. -
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Registered 14 years agoThat would give me a use for an old PC as long as the required specs aren't too high. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah similar to HarryB for my setup as well. I'm looking to upgrade to a Synology/Qnap soon, does anyone know if you can have two Dropbox accounts synced on the NAS? -
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HarryB 7,630 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYou can indeed, but only normally in 720p and using wifi. Just depends on how much you care about the quality I guess. I prefer to get the highest bitrate/res possible (which can choke the wifi) and make the most of my other kit (TV,projector, subwoofer etc). A NAS for me is solely for media - I'd agree dropbox, one drive, Google drive are all good as backups of computer data.
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mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Syncing of photos/video from multiple devices.
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Heh, backing up of photos/video from multiple Dropbox accounts so I can then clear them down off Dropbox. It's a laborious process atm with multiple profiles etc..
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