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Title: DIR-655 and WD My Book World Edition Network Storage - not communicating
Post by: dlginc on February 13, 2012, 08:28:54 PM

I am running a wireless network and recently upgraded to Windows 7. 
For the last couple weeks I no longer can access my NAS.

I have attempted everything I can possibly think of.  Spent countless hours on the internet researching solutions with no avail.

ALL my files are on this drive and I desperately need to figure this out. 

I am hoping that since I have been working on this for so long - someone else can see what I might be missing.

Not sure what information is necessary to provide to help troubleshoot.

I have a desktop and laptop and a few printers, LCD TV, ANDROID Mobile Phone on the network
Desktop/laptop are both part of the same workgroup.

Firewall is turned off
Anti-Virus is turned off

Network is set up as a "WORK" network. Everything is marked SHARED

The network runs fine.

I cant see the NAS anymore (DLGNAS). 

I have tried the WD-LINK/DISCOVERY and it says there are no network drives attached. 

I still have the old mapped networking connections - but they no longer work

The NAS still shows up under DEVICES and PRINTERS but shows unavailable.

I have attempted the following other topics with no results:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=43641.0
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=7357.0

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: DIR-655 and WD My Book World Edition Network Storage - not communicating
Post by: FurryNutz on February 14, 2012, 06:51:49 AM

Ensure devices are set to auto obtain an IP address.
Set Firewall settings to Endpoint Independent for TCP and UDP under Advanced/Firewall.
Enable uPnP and Multi-cast Streaming under Advanced/Networking.

One thing I recommend when using routers and doing lots of file xfers between NAS devices on the LAN side, get a external Gb network switch. This helps eliminate router management and processing interference while doing xfers between devices on the LAN side of things. Most routers with the ports in back have some sort of management processing going on on the ports thus there is some degradation on speed as it's having to process the data thats coming in and out of it. Having a external switch eliminates this.