ASUS RT N13U B1 vs Segate Go Flex Home for torrent downloading.

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I need a dedicated downloading setup which consumes low energy is a cost effective and easy to manage.

As I need a new router as the old one is not giving enough range for my needs. I have recently shifted to another room in my house in which the lappy does get the signal but my phone and tablet does not. Hence the change required. Now I can also shift the location of the router but the wiring and all would be a bit of a hassle hence the thought of a new router with enough range. I plan to attach the printer also along with the new router but not necessarily. Also my main criteria for choosing the router would be that it should be able to handle torrent downloading as I have acquired a new Laptop with SSD on which I don't want to continue downloading.

I am still undecided on a dedicated downloading solution. The router based vs a NAS based. This is where the Seagate Go Flex Home comes into picture. Remember I can always shift the existing router.

So my question is which is better to manage. Router based vs NAS based. I will be using both Windows and OSX to manage the downloads. Also with router based setup I have an advantage of swapping storages on the fly vs NAS based as the main media has to be copied on a remote PC not connected to this setup. Help me out here guys.
 
People have been using Asus rt n13 for downloading and it works well and router based solution is better than 2 units running in power usage but depends on your downloading requirements too as router cpu and ram can botteneck..Using buffalo wzr hp 300nh for this purpose and works great with openwrt.
 
Its about price. are you willing to fork out extra for the go flex.

Having a dedicated download solution means you can go for a router that does not have dd-wrt support because the goflex runs optware anyway. This increases rather than constricts your choice in routers, if that matters to you.

Division of labour is a good thing if you can afford it.

What would be good here is if the router has an aggressive QoS so it chokes off the downloading whenever you want to use the web or youtube. This way your downloads just resume when the line is more free instead of interfering with it.

I'm not sure if stock soultions work that well or whether dd-wrt is better than tomato when it comes to aggressive QoS.

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Also with router based setup I have an advantage of swapping storages on the fly vs NAS based as the main media has to be copied on a remote PC not connected to this setup. Help me out here guys.
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I don't follow this bit. If you're going to be doing any copying then its best that the storage is on a wired network. Wifi can be used for streaming.
 
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I was also thinking of getting a dedicated device for torrents but couldn't find anything satisfying. Routers, NAS, Flex drives etc., all can do the job but they posed some kind of tweaking-limitation for me.

Right now, I am thinking of getting a small scale PC board (Arduino, Pi, Beagleboard kind of thing) and trying out a low powered torrent box. I don't need anything more than a couple of GBs of disk space, so an SD card would be sufficient here. On the other hand, this setup would cost me same as a low end smart phone, with similar hardware capability. Getting a cheap smartphone for dedicated torrent box sounds viable to me. My internet speed is nothing to boast about; so I won't miss unavailability of gigabit LAN on my custom device.

Did you think of doing something similar? or you want to go mainstream?
 
gauravH said:
@techygeek i can get a card with SATA port. what's the next best option here? small SSD or HDD? i guess SSD will have the same fate as an SD card.
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What is a card with SATA port?

Yea small hdd should be good. You dont need the speed of SSD and also yes SSD will also die earlier than usual if used for heavy downloading.
 
SoC cards with SATA port: quad-core Udoo board, cubieboard2, etc.

My aim is to build something with very low power consumption. I thought I could make my torrenting a low power affair if I use an SD card instead of a hard disk.
 
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