WRT350N - Transfer speed via Storage link

I have always been curious what the transfer speed others get while using
a USB 2.0 hard drives on their WRT350N.
Obviously there is going to be a drop in transfer speed using storage link but 2-3 Megabyte seems slower then I would expect.   I don't thnk I have ever seen much about 3MB. 
I see the same performance wirelessly (connected at 270mb) and hardwired into the gig ethernet port.
Just wanted to get some other peoples results.
Message Edited by GAH1068 on 01-17-2008 02:04 PM

It was on both systems. However, I did get it working. Not the way I liked, but it works. What I expected to see was the device hung off the network. That is like another computer. This *is* happening, but where I was confused was the access to it. On other shared resources I can open it at will with no special access rights needed. I'm talking about printers and files on other computers on the network. It turned out to access the Storage Link I had to actually provide a USER ID and PASSWORD before I could use it. Why I couldn't get access before was I had HTTP:\\192.168.1.1 already open in my browser so any other attempts via the web browser used the existing connection. Not until I saw a forum message that said use START=>RUN and enter the IP address or UNC name was I able to connect to it. Since I now know this, a simple bat file with some NET USE's should fix the problem of getting access. Compounding my problem is how I've chosen to manage the network and shares. I use Network Magic, and it can NOT see the Storage Link at all. Anyway, I now know how to access the Storage Link. I was using a Flash drive for testing. I'll next put a USB External drive on and try that out. My ultimate try will be a USB hub and 4 external drives and hopefully I'll have access to all 4 drives to all computers. Irv S.
Thanks,
Irv S.

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