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[gunrunnerjohn]

Thanks, John, I trust you and now stand corrected, the DNS-321 with 15watts is decent and certainly beats my linux box and I am happy.  You are now upgraded to GuruJohn 

Can I add that to my profile?

[nguyen_a]

sure, John 

[peas]

The last time I brought up the topic of fun_plug, Mr "D-Link Multimedia" decried it as an insidious hack, having no place on these forums.

I'm glad whoever is hiding behind "D-Link Multimedia" has changed his stance on the issue.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, I think it's more of a case of ignoring it.

Since I've done tech support in the past, I can understand their viewpoint.  When you add fun_plug, you add a host of variables, and then when you come to D-Link for support, it makes their job a lot more difficult. 

[trumpjk]

itried to install fun plug could not get it to work. I decided to take break and work on something else like installing the p2p addon. I previously had installed this add on and removed it. When I tried to install the addon again I get and error saying "Install failed. Please check the hard drives." any suggestion?

[gunrunnerjohn]

I'd suggest looking in a different place, since this is not a D-Link supported option.  Try http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:fun_plug

[jpapoula]

This guy really helped me out with my DNS 321.  I used the wiki to install funplug and used his link to install nzbget and nzbgetweb (which I couldn't get working using the same version I installed on my DNS 323).  Working great now to download my nzb's!
http://www.aroundmyroom.com/2009/11/14/just-a-howto-for-a-tweaker

If you are planning on installing nzbget and nzbgetweb, make sure you use this version:
http://www.aroundmyroom.com/newsbin/newsbinch3mnas-v31-a.tgz

The DNS 321 uses the 'ch3mnas' version NOT the 'ch3snas'.

[frankyangi]

I ran into exactly the same problem as jemmrich has. Fun_plug just won't get executed.
Any solution/suggestion?
Thanks

[beast]

I have three DNS-321's. Two ran fun_plug with no problems and the third would not work. I determined that on the non-working NAS, the Volume_1 drive was actuallly /mnt/HD_b2 and Volume_2 was /mnt/HD_a2. I copied the fun_plug script and tgz file to Volume_2. Problem solved.

Try putting fun_plug on the Volume_2 drive.

[fr_tom]

I likewise have been struggling with getting the fun_plug install to run.  Reformatted from RAID1 to Standard, tried ext2 instead of ext3, physically swapped drives, put software on both drives, verified repeatedly that names and downloads were correct. Finally decided to put down the MacBook and work on the Windows XP machine ... and behold, I discovered my Mac was putting those stupid 'resource fork' files in the DNS-321, which begin with a dot and presumably Linux was interpreting them as hidden files and trying to execute them. Maybe? Anyway, I started from scratch using Windows, and it worked on the first try.

Still don't have telnet connection, but at least fun_plug is running!

[gunrunnerjohn]

I'd say if telnet doesn't work, I question if fun_plug is actually running.  That comes up "right out of the box" when it's running. 

[chriso]

I'd say if telnet doesn't work, I question if fun_plug is actually running.  That comes up "right out of the box" when it's running. 

Well something is running, after all something has to be running to turn off telnet (unless telnet was turned off from the admin console).   

[gunrunnerjohn]

Telnet is not enabled with the stock box, so it's absence is no indication of fun_plug running.

[Dad Man Walking]

My DNS-321 uses between 5-6 watts in standby, and 15 watts with both disks being accessed. 

My results were similar to John's but slightly higher.  8 watts at idle, 25 watts with the drives actively doing read-write operations.  The difference is probably the drives.  I am using 2 Seagate 1.5TB drives.  Any way you slice it, these are far cheaper than PCs if you need some services running and don't mind the slow spin-up and slow transfer speeds.

[gunrunnerjohn]

I have a Synology DS209 NAS as well, it actually uses about 13-14 watts at idle, and 28 when the disks spin up.  I can live with that as well, I don't know any PC configuration that would use less than around 100W.