Hi. Just followed the instructions and setup running the CD. Find the drive, and nothing happened when trying to map the drive. Just next step. Install smartware, everything looks fine. I can access the webgui, but nothing else. Can’t access public share or map any drive. Under my network it shows the Mybook icon, and I click it it, it redirects me to the webinterface where I can log in. What is the problem? The pc and MBL is connected to the same router wired. I’m supposed to have my pc wirelessly later. Any suggestions? I have uninstalled all the software and reinstalled it twice. Tried WDlink also.
Hi. Yes I know. The icon under “storage” sends me to the webinterface, the other icon is sometimes visible and when it is no username and password works, not even after a reset of the drive. As a said earlier it connects fine from my western digital live tv hd streamer.
Reset MBL to factory settings during the night, uninstalled all the WD software. Now I found the drive and I managed to map the drive. But the another problem I have is the speed. I’m on a wireless network 5GHz with a usb 5GHz adapter and Linksys E2000. Connection is good, and varies from 54Mbps to 108 Mbps and can transfer files with only 3MB/s. I assume that is kind of slow. I have read another post about the slow speed on the MBL, so will search and read more about that. But so far I will never recommend MBL to anyone. Buy a real NAS is much better I think.
The wireless network is your bottleneck. The MyBookLive is amazing when you hardwire everything to a gigabit network. I get speeds of 70-100 MB/s from the MBL to my pc’s and 40-45 MB/sec to the MBL from my pc’s.
