Does anyone if the PR4100 will support connectivity via a usb ethernet adapter?
Namely this one…
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The PR4100 already has 2 ethernet ports… but I assume you’re asking to connect this adaptor in your laptop with a cable straight to the PR4100?
That’s not officially supported.
Also there’s no aquantia driver in the current kernel… so it won’t work out of the box
Im trying to add a 5GBps to make use of my router’s Multi-gig port and increase throughput. I bought the adapter, but alas it doesnt work. no drivers as mentioned above. Some other NAS solutions do support a USB ethernet adapter.
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Hi, I wanted to use my PR4100 for video work, so this topic interests me, too.
Is anyone so expert to confirm there’s some way to directly connect PR4100 to 5GBe (or even 10GBe) usbc adapter, which would go straight into my macbook pro?
Thanks anyone!
Marco
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Hi, I second this. Currently there is a plethora of USB 2.5G Ethernet adapters. WD should release an update that would have support for those. Otherwise people would start opting for competition or custom Nas builds
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I highly doubt that BusyBox v1.30.1 (A/K/A: OS5) has support a network dongle on the PR4100’s USB3 Type-A ports
But, even if it did, the Admin GUI (currently) shows no support for a 3rd network interface. But, who knows, maybe a new hidden NIC would show up if it was detected.
Otherwise, if the OS does see the 3rd NIC, you’d have to do your own configuration of it through the command line.
And I’ve made changes to some of the config files (DNS and NTP), and they get overwritten by the original files on reboot. If you did get the 3rd NIC running, it may not survive a reboot.
I configured my switches to use channel bonding 802.3ad (Mode 4 channel bonding) for active/active and set the PR4100 to that mode on its two 1GbE ports. That’s not a great work around, but it gives a slight boost in throughput for multi-threaded transfers (like robocopy or rsync) but don’t help single threaded operations.
