Western Digital My Net N900 HD Router Review – 368 days old

[ZemaTalon]

A few weeks ago I witnessed a technology demo by Western Digital. I arrived expecting to see something storage related, but what I saw was completely different - a new line of routers!

While all models have USB 2.0 connectivity for storage devices, the top tier will be available with an integrated 1TB or 2TB 2.5" Hard Disk that can be used for NAS and local backup duties.

FasTrack:

Until this point the My Net N900 router has appeared to be a nice high-end home router with a great feature set, but still very similar to the competition. Here's where we get to the true break-out feature of the My Net series - FasTrack. This technology was developed in-house by Western Digital and is a form of very advanced QoS. This tech prioritizes streaming services such as Skype, Netflix, Hulu Plus, VUDU, YouTube, and Xbox LIVE over any other traffic. The My Net router makes itself aware of the upstream and downstream caps present on the connected modem and ensures those streaming services always have full bandwidth by actively stepping in and limiting bandwidth allocated to everything else. Western Digital did a side-by-side demo of this for me last month, and I took a couple of pics of the tools they were using to add 'extra' bandwidth to a system attempting to stream an episode of The Office in HD via Netflix.

Read the full article with complete set of photos and screenshots at PC Perspective.

[Dark Angel]

This actually looks interesting.

[MSUredux]

This actually looks interesting.

Sure does.

[ZemaTalon]

Might be just the thing to finally replace my Verizon Actiontec

[Alakazam]

An interesting read, my wireless router is about 7 years old now, hmmmm.

[dolittlejerry]

Zema if I am reading this correctly I can install this with the HD and send the link to my family and friends to download the folder, pictures and etc. With out having a server?

[ZemaTalon]

Zema if I am reading this correctly I can install this with the HD and send the link to my family and friends to download the folder, pictures and etc. With out having a server?

I don't think you could use the router itself as a remote server, I believe the model with an internal HD and the others using an external USB HD would be for local file serving only, as with other routers. I'm not sure using your router as a remote server would be such a good idea. But it is setup to do port forwarding to a local machine that you do want to use as a remote server, and you really wouldn't need much just to host files for a limited number of remote connections.

[dolittlejerry]

Thanks Z for the info.