I purchased a dir-8868L a couple of weeks ago and had absolutely no problems setting it up, incorporating it into our home FIOS network, etc. The router seems to be performing at the stated speeds, except for the problem described below.
The problem is that a couple of days ago, I connected a 3TB USB3 drive that contained our family archive of about 2 TB of photos, and am using it as a cheap NAS box (I have the networked 3TB drive mapped as drive Y on my photoshop machine). However, the drive is *always* active, even when no one is attempting to access it, no one else is logged in to the WiFi, etc.
I access the USB drive from our WiFi connected computers (including a new, heavy duty photoshop machine with a fast 8.02.11n card), but there is always a long delay (5-10 seconds) between when I request a file and it begins to download to the machine I'm using. If I'm browsing through an album of pix, that sort of delay is just intolerable.
Although I haven't measured the actual data rate once the transfer gets going, that rate seems fairly reasonable, the problem is the delay before each file transfer.
So, a couple of questions:
1) Why is the drive always active? What can I do to turn this off? Will this activity ever stop?
2) Can I do anything to speed up the beginning of each file transfer from the 3TB drive?
3) What is with all the hidden files that have been placed in every single directory of my attached USB drive. A system should NEVER EVER scribble over my data without first warning me.
Thanks,
Tom