Top positive review
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This is the best WiFi storage device I had ever seen, and even beyond my expectation before I buy it!
By Amazon Customer on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014
It is my hobby for long time to backup my favorite videos and photos to my USB HDD, I have so many private and family stuff, I hate to use iCloud to backup it to the public cloud, cause I high suspect what Mr.Snowden said maybe true ..., so I bought a bunch of USB HDD to do the backup, Toshiba's Canvio USB HDD is my best, so cute and elegant! the man's data storage capacity is never enough, just like women's clothes :), but after I begin to use iPad and iPhone years ago, I found I can't access my HDD from my iPad and iPhone any more, oh, my Godness, I used my iPhone to take thousands my baby girl's photo, and I use iPad to watch the video every day, if I can't backup my private photo and watch my favorite video, oh, I am suffered this for long time until I see Toshiba's this cute wireless adapter in Amazon! Yes, I bought it when it shows in website, although it is said 1-2 month shipping time in the beginning, after I place the order, Amazon told me it will ship it in 1-2 days, great! When I receive this package at home, it looks cute, the website's picture looks size is big, but it is really small one! I open the box, plug the USB cable connected with adapter and AC power adapter inside, and also connect adapter with my Toshiba Canvio 1TB USB HDD in another said, turn on the AC power, then around 20 seconds, the USB LED turns stable blue, I enable the official apps "wireless adapter" in my iPad, bingo! it go! So simple, I can access my HDD from my iOS device now! I had a bunch of test video in my HDD, I use funny "big bunny", 1080p FHD MP4, use official apps to play it in my iPad air, oh, it is so smoothly, great, my baby girl saw it, then she take hold of this iPad, watch this video again and again, oh, I had to use my iPhone instead cause she took my position! I use my iPhone to stream another my best new videos, then one issue, most of my videos is not MP4 format, Real Video and MKV are the main stream, but official apps can't support this format! What can I do? In usual, I am using nPlayer, the best video player apps I found, to access my wireless adapter, after some retries, I found this Toshiba device can be found by search "SMB/CIFS", and with automatic scan, nPlayer can find my HDD! I use this apps to watch all the different formats videos at my hand, it works perfectly, amazing! Another big usage for me to buy this device is to backup my iPhone 5S's thousands photos, I found Toshiba official apps can't support this! This is definitely big weakness of this apps! Then I take some times to see if third party apps can do this job, I uses "PhotoSync" apps to backup my iPhone5S apps more often, but it looks this apps can't find my device by auto scan, after some hours trial, I found it can use WebDAV to access this adapter, i need configure this ErbDAv account with "Server:192.168.65.1", port as 81, then I can use my PhotoSync apps to backup my over three thousands to my HDD within half hours, so fast! Very stable! In short, this is exactly device I want to buy, cute, portable,simple to setup, work with my HDD well, I studied Seagate's wireless plus for a long time, you know, $150 with 1TB, I hesitates a long time but give up to buy at last, I have so many HDD already, $150 is too expensive for me, right now, I just need 49$ to enable all my existing USB HDD! battery operated is not so useful for me, cause I have 10000mAh battery pack already! Some weakness of this device, this device supports some third party apps very well, but no official introduction in its website, and I tried some hours to make it works, but for most of people, some guidance is better. Overall, I want to give this device 5 stars although some little things need be improved!
Top critical review
1 people found this helpful
Man, did Toshiba make me WORK to get it operational! (Hint: there IS a Reset button on the device)
By fl3xm0n on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2015
I'm giving it 3 stars for my trouble. Had it not been for that, I'd be giving it 5 stars for operation and usability. Like many others here, I had trouble getting this to work. Unlike many, I'd like to remind anyone in the middle of trying to get it to work that there IS a Reset button. It proved crucial to my experience, and a tiny, only once-mentioned, detail in the instructions. (It doesn't even warrant an index entry) In particular because I got the adapter to work initially, and then spent the better part of the next two days trying to get it to work again. In my case, I unpacked it, powered it up, and put a known flash drive (formatted as FAT32) into the device. On my ipad, I'd already dl'd the Toshiba Wifi software (yes, they finally put it under the Toshiba name), opened it up, selected Internet, and watched it get recognized. All this happened almost without my intervention. I wasn't too surprised, since I already administer and operate a home LAN on a DLink DIR-655 router that is hand-configured to deal with the wired and wireless devices I have around with decent security, so I'd already entered the device's MAC address and assigned an IP. I expected it to work and it did. However, it wasn't quite clear to me yet whether I wanted to use the device in Station mode or Bridge mode. It had booted into Bridge mode and I quickly verified that I could see the flash drive contents, both from Toshiba's software as well as the FileBrowser app I use on my ipad, which comes designed to use this Toshiba wifi device (which is why I bought this, and not some other, wifi device). So, in the spirit of experimentation, and without doing anything else, I switched it from Bridge to Station mode, thinking I'd be able to easily switch it back if it didn't work. That's when things went quickly downhill. The device disconnected (obviously). But I quickly realized that, while the device could be seen in the area wifi list of the ipad System Settings, it would not actually connect (with a blue check mark). I had an IP (192.168.65.1) that supposedly a web browser should've allowed me administrative access to the device, but never could get that to work. So I was going in circles. The Toshiba software could see the device name; I could switch back and forth between my home router and the device itself, but could never get back to choosing Bridge mode again. My thinking was, I could 'force' it back into making the query. I was trying everything, switching from dhcp to static discovery mode (where you enter IP and subnet info by hand) to shutting my home network down entirely, thinking it might be interfering with the ipad wifi connection. Nothing worked. Finally, logic crept back into my thinking. I knew I was in Station mode, and that I wanted to put the device back into its default (Bridge) mode. But there was nothing in software that was allowing me to do this. And I thought, "No way they designed this thing without an ability to reset into default settings". So, only THEN did I pick up the device to specifically look for a physical button or something. That's when I noticed the pin-hole. Pushing and holding the end of a paperclip in there for 3 seconds indeed rebooted the device. Long story short, I got back to being able to choose Bridge mode. Everything worked. After having viewed the manual at least a dozen times, I went back to look for what I'd discovered, the Reset button. Indeed, the legend to the one diagram of the device DOES indicate and label a 'Reset' button. I'd missed it the whole time. But then it was the ONLY reference to that button ANYWHERE in the manual. Also, having read dozens of Amazon reviews, I didn't recall a single person mentioning this detail either. So, I have to wonder whether others having trouble with this device might also have benefitted from knowing there was a Reset button? So, this thing DOES work, as advertised. And its a lifesaver that makes up for the ipad's shortcomings vis a vis exposing a filesystem and avoiding you having to fill up the limited file-space on the device itself. But man, did Toshiba make me WORK to get it operational!
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