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Hi-Jack

If  there’s  one  thing  in  our  homes  is  missing,  than  it  is  a  NAS  server  that  fits  in  with  our
stacked  media  players.  Ever  since  CES  2010  we  been  promoting  such  solutions  to  come
from  familiar  brands  like  QNAP  and  Synology,  only  to  result  in  an  unfamiliar  and  new
brand, delivering upon our wishes. At least some wishes like silent operation, full featured
NAS  tailored  for  entertainment  are  returned  but  the  question  is,  will  it  live  up  to
reasonable expectations we have…? Let’s find out…

LOOQS MeeBox / MeeBox Router

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Page 1: ...nce CES 2010 we been promoting such solutions to come from familiar brands like QNAP and Synology only to result in an unfamiliar and new brand delivering upon our wishes At least some wishes like silent operation full featured NAS tailored for entertainment are returned but the question is will it live up to reasonable expectations we have Let s find out LOOQS MeeBox MeeBox Router ...

Page 2: ...u can find in front is the power button The dark design with grey tones works excellent for the unit and maybe the best of it all it isn t plastic The rear of the unit is fitted with the absolute basics only a GBIT network connection and 2 USB ports A minor remark here would be an eSATA would have fitted in well A reset switch is available and off course power socket The box comes with the unit it...

Page 3: ...e unit has the LOOQS we chose natasjakinski as the name remember here We leave the unit on DHCP for now and continue exploring the setup Next we select date and time including time zone and then get confirmation of all settings we applied and the option to map network drives via the software We will not do this at this stage considering we haven t configured anything like user security and folders...

Page 4: ...ge used in a nutshell The other categories available next to System Status are Network Features and Administration which we will explore one by one It is clear the MeeBox offers limited setup functions due to its design for home users and media streaming but let s not have that fool us believing the product is limited NETWORK SETTINGS Network settings are as within the setup section limited to fix...

Page 5: ...settings we ve seen before The user management allows a quota to be set to every user separately so you can define how much space any user is allowed to consume on the MeeBox The user creation is a three step wizard where the first step is entering the username and password quota second step is selecting which groups the user belongs to and last step is defining which folders the user is allowed t...

Page 6: ...ion to a single IP for instance 192 168 1 1 up to 192 168 1 254 Maybe a little something MeeBox can still look at in upcoming firmware Where most NFS servers require explicit permissions MeeBox includes and allow for all option but we don t recommend that for security reasons RAID CONFIG The MeeBox supports RAID Go figure Both RAID0 Stripe and RAID1 Mirror are featured but given only two drives th...

Page 7: ...EXT2 Ext3 no ext4 the external drives can be either Linux formatted with ext2 ext3 formatted in XFS or windows formatted both NTFS and FAT32 are supported Last option we find is the ability to upgrade the firmware and apparently there s a disk image too We believe the disk image contains the features installed for this unit so it is not stored on internal memory or flash but a part of the hard dri...

Page 8: ...pload torrent files and set up and download limits Problem is there s no NAT we can add no port settings we can configure no way to upload multiple files at once No PC application that catches torrent links and sends these to the NAS so this is very limited and a resource intensive solution especially since we have to download torrents first and then import these into the Torrent client integrated...

Page 9: ...imitation applied not only by the weak torrent client but most of all a weak performance For write access over GBIT cross link we measure hardly 14MB s while expecting to squeeze at least 30 50 MB s out of a GBIT NAS The read performance on top is rather erratic in its performance balancing below 2MB s up to 9MB s Although we were very positive so far about this unit this is a crack in the shield ...

Page 10: ...iously extended in order to configure the WAN LAN part of the MeeBox router WAN Mode can be set to static IP DHCP PPPoE according to your internet provider MTU settings can be changed and network translation IP Address configuration and DNS are next Once set the connection to our internet provider is made and the MeeBox router is now the gateway to the internet in our network When this is the only...

Page 11: ...ta off the MeeBox NAS Router The photo slideshow can pull data from the internal 1GB memory SC MMC card that can be inserted USB attached storage or the NAS When talking about NAS the functions are limited to any NAS PC featuring UPnP and not regular SMB or NFS The connection is made wirelessly to the MeeBox router or your regular router in operation All we need to do is press connect and a wizard...

Page 12: ... to mix options like using the MeeFrame as an info display for weather during slideshows Some light form of signage Maybe I m dreaming aloud but those are the kind of functions that offer instant distance from the big pile of frames out there although LOOQS MeeFrame has quite a different concept than the overall batch One more minor detail the touch screen is not always as responsive as I would ho...

Page 13: ...ages would have been used despite the torrent limitations this device would run away with an award and be considered by us everything the Xtreamer Pro should have been but isn t without the media player part We can t get passed the most important part of it all though so even though we recommend the LOOQS as a stylish network storage unit for the living room the limited performance is a thing to k...

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