ashishkesarwani
Well-Known Member
Guys finally the eTRAYz which I ordered on 1st of November arrived yesterday. It was packed well with box in box concept, and it just took 4 days for this parcel to reach me from its origin country i.e Hong Kong.
Last night I went home pretty late so after finishing my dinner quickly at around 9:30 Pm I went ahead with Installing this eTRAYz thing. The Box inside which it was packed had ample amount of protection to take the toll of International shipping. The first impression of looking at it gives you a nice feeling, the construction quality was good for the price, also it was smaller than what I had anticipated about it, slightly longer than a 3.5" internal HDD and the width constists of slightly more than the 2 HDD kept on top of each other.
Now came the part when I needed to install a HDD internally into it and for this purpose I had bought a WD 1.5tb green HDD. There was a Quick Installation guide for installing it inside but the way in which it was explained was inadequate, so after fiddling for a while I finally managed to open the top cover of the Unit which work on pull up principle with a lock at the bottom to support the top cover. Then the rest of it i.e Installing the HDD was a piece of cake I just had to push it inside the enclosure and it gets locked, after that I put the top cover back into its position and now this thing was ready for a trial. Now comes the part in which I had to download its installation software from Xtreamer website which is 140mb+ size which takes around 20-25 minutes on a descent internet connection. The file which is downloaded is in the zip format so I had to unzip it which increases the file size to around 400+mb.
I had connected eTRAYz with the network cable running to the ethernet port at the back of my D-link Wireless Broadband Router, and my Laptop was connected to it via wifi.
The file which I had downloaded had a setup file and when I selected that, it comes up with a screen which has the option of installing the eTRAYz software onto the unit so I went ahead with it, this setup searches for the etrays over the network and once it is found, it asks for an Installation key which is printed onto a sticker at the bottom of the etayz unit. After entering that code, software goes ahead with formatiing the internal HDD and then installing the software onto the unit, and here comes the problem which took 6 setup re-runs as well as took 3.5 hours of my time and I realised that when I looked at the time which was 1:30 AM, I got really furstrated with all this but I still didn't loose hope, so I turned off the unit and opened the Top Cover again, I also took the HDD out of it and then inserted it back, put the top cover on and then fired up the unit again. This time when I ran the setup it went ahead smoothly and finished installing the required software onto the HDD of the unit.
After setup was over, a new window opened up in the internet explorer which was a sort of welcome screen for this device and there lies all the instruction to set it up. By the time I had installed and finished with the setup it was already too late as I had some urgent work today in my office other wise I would have taken off from work to finish with setting up etrays, but last night itslef I managed to set it up for etorrent downloads so I ended up downloading a couple of movies which I confirmed this morning.
In the morning I managed to check out the movies which I had downloaded over night, I tried playing them through Xtreamer which is connected wirelessly to my router, now I noticed that the initial loading time for movies player over the network was rather more than what was stored internally or attched via the USB port of the Xtreamer, but this lag was expected so I am not complaining on that front since it was far better than the PS3 and Ps3 media server route.
Now the disappointment came when I played the movie over the network, as it crashed a couple of times say after 10 minutes of playback or so and the resume was not functioning here so everytime I had to restart the movie from the begining.
Now I know that there must be something wrong with my settings here which I intend to correct during this weekend. But being a non Networking guy it would be a rather difficult job for me to setup it up straight away, as I happen to have a lot of practical knowledge whereas a professional of this field would have more of practical as well as theoritical knowledge so for him it would be an easy experience.
This devices opens up a lot of scope in my home as I live in a joint family so there are 3 parallel setups running simultaniously which includes the bedroom setups and in my case I just need to buy 2 more Xtreamer units to play contents wirelessly in my house.
Last night I went home pretty late so after finishing my dinner quickly at around 9:30 Pm I went ahead with Installing this eTRAYz thing. The Box inside which it was packed had ample amount of protection to take the toll of International shipping. The first impression of looking at it gives you a nice feeling, the construction quality was good for the price, also it was smaller than what I had anticipated about it, slightly longer than a 3.5" internal HDD and the width constists of slightly more than the 2 HDD kept on top of each other.
Now came the part when I needed to install a HDD internally into it and for this purpose I had bought a WD 1.5tb green HDD. There was a Quick Installation guide for installing it inside but the way in which it was explained was inadequate, so after fiddling for a while I finally managed to open the top cover of the Unit which work on pull up principle with a lock at the bottom to support the top cover. Then the rest of it i.e Installing the HDD was a piece of cake I just had to push it inside the enclosure and it gets locked, after that I put the top cover back into its position and now this thing was ready for a trial. Now comes the part in which I had to download its installation software from Xtreamer website which is 140mb+ size which takes around 20-25 minutes on a descent internet connection. The file which is downloaded is in the zip format so I had to unzip it which increases the file size to around 400+mb.
I had connected eTRAYz with the network cable running to the ethernet port at the back of my D-link Wireless Broadband Router, and my Laptop was connected to it via wifi.
The file which I had downloaded had a setup file and when I selected that, it comes up with a screen which has the option of installing the eTRAYz software onto the unit so I went ahead with it, this setup searches for the etrays over the network and once it is found, it asks for an Installation key which is printed onto a sticker at the bottom of the etayz unit. After entering that code, software goes ahead with formatiing the internal HDD and then installing the software onto the unit, and here comes the problem which took 6 setup re-runs as well as took 3.5 hours of my time and I realised that when I looked at the time which was 1:30 AM, I got really furstrated with all this but I still didn't loose hope, so I turned off the unit and opened the Top Cover again, I also took the HDD out of it and then inserted it back, put the top cover on and then fired up the unit again. This time when I ran the setup it went ahead smoothly and finished installing the required software onto the HDD of the unit.
After setup was over, a new window opened up in the internet explorer which was a sort of welcome screen for this device and there lies all the instruction to set it up. By the time I had installed and finished with the setup it was already too late as I had some urgent work today in my office other wise I would have taken off from work to finish with setting up etrays, but last night itslef I managed to set it up for etorrent downloads so I ended up downloading a couple of movies which I confirmed this morning.
In the morning I managed to check out the movies which I had downloaded over night, I tried playing them through Xtreamer which is connected wirelessly to my router, now I noticed that the initial loading time for movies player over the network was rather more than what was stored internally or attched via the USB port of the Xtreamer, but this lag was expected so I am not complaining on that front since it was far better than the PS3 and Ps3 media server route.
Now the disappointment came when I played the movie over the network, as it crashed a couple of times say after 10 minutes of playback or so and the resume was not functioning here so everytime I had to restart the movie from the begining.
Now I know that there must be something wrong with my settings here which I intend to correct during this weekend. But being a non Networking guy it would be a rather difficult job for me to setup it up straight away, as I happen to have a lot of practical knowledge whereas a professional of this field would have more of practical as well as theoritical knowledge so for him it would be an easy experience.
This devices opens up a lot of scope in my home as I live in a joint family so there are 3 parallel setups running simultaniously which includes the bedroom setups and in my case I just need to buy 2 more Xtreamer units to play contents wirelessly in my house.
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