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Have you set it up as a download/media server? Is that working well? Or are you suffering from the low lan speed?

I just saw that, was going to post it here too.
How are you doing with your U2? Have you set it up yet?

I never really thought about a USB-Ethernet adapter, but it certaily looks like a good solution. This probably decides it for me as well and I'll go for the U2. I don't think I will buy the adapter right off the bat though, but it's comforting to know that there is a way to increase network performa...

buffhr, thanks for your input. My current setup is an old Acer Aspire 1960, which has a Intel Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz) and 512MB RAM. Download folder is on the internal HDD, the final folder is on a USB2.0 external HDD. The logs in SAB tell me that it spends 4:44 unpacking a 2.7 GB file and 2:45 unpa...

Yeah, same with me. I keep looking for better specs until I decide it's too expensive and then I think I probably don't even need all that performance and start over at the bottom... I read that too and it worried me. But I think that might have been before the HW acc. drivers were out. In this yout...

I saw the Nitrogen6X too. Would be a nice board, but even without the case its a lot more expensive than what I had planned. Including the case and the 2GB RAM upgrade (which would basically give you a Wandboard with a quad core CPU and 2GB RAM or a U2 with Gbit LAN) it would run you $300 + shipping...

looks interesting. but now you're back to 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet...

Looking at different stores it looks like the sabre light would cost me more than twice that of a Wandboard. I would like it if the board I purchase had some good community support, so I feel like the Wandboard or the U2 would be better in that respect. Another option would be the UDOO . Quad core A...

Yeah, if the U2 had Gbit LAN the case would be clear. The one you link to looks good on paper but, as you said, no community and it's also quite a bit more expensive. To be honest, I think the Wandboard will do just fine for your needs. The quad core would be nice to have, but if network speed is im...

Well the wandboard will definitely be faster than your current set up. What do you need to transfer from the wandboard/U2? Media to the RPi would be limited to 100Mb/s and printing doesn't need that much bandwidth, does it? Do you also want to use it as a fileserver inside the LAN?

I have to confess that I haven't gotten any further since three months ago. I haven't purchased any device. I did do some testing on the RPi with unraring and found that it was faster than what I expected (although I don't remember any specific numbers). So maybe the next step should be to see how w...

SlackMaster, thanks for the reply. I guess you're right, the RPi woudn't benefit from the faster port. Using it as a fileserver, though, I could take advantage of it by accessing a smb drive from my laptop. Although I guess if I want to run all of that through OwnCloud it would always take a round t...

Hi everybody! I was hoping you could give me some advice. I'm planning on buying a new low-cost device to run all my usenet and other server related stuff on. Namely sabnzbd+, sickbeard, couchpotato, headphones, owncloud (i have a RasperryPi with XBMC on it to watch the downloaded stuff, but I might...