“I’m not doing what most people might do which is connect the WD to the router for wireless access”.
Most people do that because that is the correct way. The few others that do not, are advanced techie users.
NAS devices are that, Network Access Storage. Which means it is a hard drive available thur the network. Now, your network is defined by the router. It makes no difference if it is wireless or wired where you going to access it from, you need to connect the MBL to the router.
That is a NAS in a nutshell. Since you are not a technie, will not go into the more tech details.
