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LOOQS MeeBox / MeeBox Router
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...
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- Page 1 LOOQS MeeBox / MeeBox Router 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.
- Page 2 MeeBox is presented with the product or not. For me, the introduction to LOOQS was love at first and designed, it “LOOQS” as if it has been crafted with the regular John Doe sight, but only for the design quality and simple finesse of the hardware and at home in mind.
- Page 3 Once passed the credentials input, we get to set the IP settings to DHCP or fixed mode and think of a good name for the unit. As for the reference we feel the 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.
- Page 4 After login in the first time, we are prompted to change the password, obviously LOOQS is concerned on safety. Good. EATURES We are presented with a form where we can do just that, update the Also limited in available options are the features. We can enable or disable a firmware and a feature to install application software.
- Page 5 MPC Club Reviews 2010 Before you make the wrong assumptions, Apple is supported and so is FTP The user creation is a three step wizard where the first step is entering the among other services like NFS. The specification list includes SMB, FTP, username and password + quota, second step is selecting which groups the SFTP, SSH, Telnet, VPN, HTTP, MySQL and regular printer sharing.
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Page 6: Raid Config
MPC Club Reviews 2010 The shared folders is a bit of a mess and could do with some better design. It’s not difficult but this is the first window that looks like a VB applications in progress… A better layout could do wonders here… We can create new folders, assign users and groups to folders for access, RAID even guest account can be enabled, but most important for streaming, we... - Page 7 MPC Club Reviews 2010 Disk Utility is limited to formatting the internal hard drives. While the EPORTS internal hard drives are limited to EXT2/Ext3 (no ext4?), the external drives Available reports are limited to disk space consumption and consumption can be either Linux formatted with ext2/ext3, formatted in XFS or windows per user.
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Page 8: Torrent Client
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… This is too weak to pass our appreciation so LOOQS, there’s some work pending on this. -
Page 9: Performance Test Results
Ow o wow… it hurts… While the unit is absolutely amazing so far in design for the purpose of media usage, the LOOQS and easy setup + overall features cannot overcome the limitation applied not only by the weak torrent client, but most of all, a weak performance. - Page 10 MPC Club Reviews 2010 When this is the only router in the network, the MeeBox router can be set to OUTER become a DHCP server and the option is provided to add clients that require Everything we said so far, is valid for both the MeeBox and the MeeBox a fixed IP address.
- Page 11 Other well so also the MeeBox router can profit from a few updates to reach a than the Wireless being limited to B/G, we have no remarks to make on the higher level of satisfaction, convenience and performance.
- Page 12 There’s a lot of fun integrated into the MeeFrame where we consider the network integration to work for the MeeFrame as a standalone option. No need to purchase a MeeBox / MeeBox Router in addition for the purpose of showing pictures and that is simply well done by LOOQS, not forcing their own solutions but leave consumers the choice.
- Page 13 (without the media player part). We can’t get passed the most ONCLUSION important part of it all though so even though we recommend the LOOQS as Let’s start with the MeeFrame, it’s simply a stylish network storage unit for the living room, the limited performance is an excellent device that integrates streaming a thing to keep in mind.
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