Performance of WRT610N (v1) with attached USB disk

Greetings, I've had my WRT610N for a while now and have had no complaints on performance. Over this past weekend, however, I attached a USB disk to it (cheaper than adding a NAS). I can mount it without problem on my Vista box, but it seems that when the disk is being accessed (read or write), I get severe performance degradation on my network connection. Severe enough to render the network unusable.
Is this to be expected? Is there a setting in the firmware that will prioritize network activity over disk activity?
The PCs in question are wired and the router is running the latest firmware (1.00.03.15). The disk (previously formatted on my computer) is NTFS. If there are any other pertinent pieces of information, please let me know.
Thanks.
Message Edited by msfeinstein on 10-05-2009 04:27 PM

Try reducing the MTU size to 1300 on the router's GUI and check if the problem resolve...If not then,try upgrading/reflashing the router's firmware and reconfigure it from the scratch....

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