Download Master

[nszb]

Hi all!

I just bought WL-500GP today..
I have 1.9.6.8 firmware installed and USB hard disk with ext3 fs mounted.

My problem is that the Download Master changes my BT downloads state from downloading to queued and back to downloading 4-5x in 10 minutes. Sometimes the downloads are queued for 10-15 minutes, and nothing happens.

What should I do? What is the reason of this issue? Anybody knows?

Thank you in advance!

[grongl]

Download Master seems to be a very sucky client. I am experiencing the same queued/transferring transitions all the time. What's more, I haven't managed to download anything larger than 1 GB: at a slightly larger downloaded size DM decides that number of peers has dropped to 0 and stops downloading.

Additionally,
1) downloads are not resumed if router is restarted
2) some BT downloads won't initalize: a perfectly valid torrent file doesn't get the 'BT' network label and filesize is set to be '2B'

[nszb]

Same..
What should we do?? Download Master feature is the major feature wherefore I bought WL-500GP...

[grongl]

I'm thinking of scrapping Asus, buying myself an actually working Linksys and hooking it with one of my old laptops. I could live without all that USB-related stuff but not being able to cover my entire flat which my previous Apple Airport Express wireless router handled easily, well, that really pisses me off.

That or wait through x versions of firmware updates that will or will not fix most of these hickups.

[VenoM]

I installed OpenWRT on it, I use a 1 GB kingmax SuperStick with 80 MB of swap and ctorrent works like a charm. I don't need some stupid download master, I use SSH to download stuff on the router without a computer running.
I will use Oleg's version when it will be more stable becouse I want the old asus webinterface and SSH/ipkg features.

[phantasm]

Yea, download master have is a little bit shitty Often when you change name of the torrent file it helps. Maybe in later version Asus change something for better

[Blaster]

I got my wl-500gP yesterday. I configurated it and it works allmost great.
But when I tried to download something with "Download Master" I got the message "No device was found! Please check your network connection and try again", and I still get this error message. And my network connection is working. What shall I do?

[phantasm]

What is the type of your hard disk?
What partitions you have on it? (ext3, ntfs, fat32)
Connect disk to upper port and chect that is configured good in router.
Enable media server and download master in router configuration.

I have 100GB hard disk from Samsung with one ntfs partition. Only when i made two partition, one 32gb fat32 and rest for ntfs, download master found device. So maybe try with different partition and check what i wrote in the beggining.

[kurzwellen]

I had the same problem.

The problem was that I had an external casing with two extra usb ports build in.
I disabled the two usb ports but somehow Download Master expected there the harddisk on.

Always got the message No device was found!

I bought a new external casing without the two extra usb ports and build in the harddisk. Surprise Now download master jumped from offline to online and the terrible message No device was found was gone.

Download master WORKS now like a charm.

My lesson:
Never build in a harddisk in an external harddisk casing with a 6-1 cardreader or two extra usb ports. It gave me BIG trouble with Download master

[Blaster]

It's a Maxtor 200GB disk in a usb 2.0 external casing. The box has no extra usb ports build in. It has one NTFS partition. I'll try to make one more partition.

[phantasm]

Try to make at least one fat32 partition, one ntfs partition is hard to find even in xp without service pack . I've got my disk in case with 2 usb connectors but it works excellent connected with only one. It's a 2.5 100GB Samsung, and the external case is the one of the cheapest

[calaba]

Hi, can anyone explain following settings of ASUS FW WL-500gP ??

Enable Download Master?
Enable Download Share?
Enable Media Server?

Enable Download Master - is clear -> I cant connect with my Download Master appliaction to router if disabled (on 1st try I had to enable also Download Share but now not).

According to docu Enable Download Share should allow access to attached USB from LAN .. now I have disabled it and still can connect (FTP, Windows sharing).

What is Enable Media Server good for???


Someone experienced please explain .. I do not want to share my HDD from internet - even now with the FTP security bug ...

Thx, r.

[lexxdark]

I think the sharing part is only on the lan not on the wan (that should make sense)
Media server is (at least I think) for upnp enabled devices since I don't have such a thing I can't tell you for sure...

[kvi]

Enable download share is like it says, enables sharing of files downloaded with download master. It does NOT share anything to internet, it shares only to lan. If you have configured the router to share those directorys (or whole HDD) somewhere else, it has no effect and can as well be disabled.

[mumie]

Enable download share - enables FTP server.
Over FTP you can access your asus from LAN or WAN (but be sure which you share - dropdown).
SAmba you can access only from LAN (mapping discs from WIN).
FW1970
You can block or route packets onport 21 from WAN (firewall).