New User Niggles
Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 18:40
Hi all,
I just got my 2TB B3, which of course I like very much, but (there's always a but), I have some niggles with it. They could be down to my inexperience, so I'm very glad to be educated, but if they are not just me being stupid, then I hope the feedback will help to improve an already very good product.
1) I have it set up in server mode behind a DSL router. The DSL router (a Thomson SpeedTouch 516i) is the dhcp server for the LAN. If the router gets powered down or reset, the connection to the B3 fails and doesn't come back until the Ethernet cable is physically disconnected and reconnected again. As I intend to access the B3 remotely while travelling, that could be a little inconvenient if I'm in another country and my home has a power cut... (The Ethernet cable from the DSL router is plugged into the LAN port of the B3)
2) It's a wireless B3, as I intend to use it to provide a wireless network, as my DSL router isn't wireless. When activated, the wireless network appears to be bridged to the LAN, not routed. The web-browser admin pages don't appear to offer a routed option here: although I guess it would be possible under the hood. Can the B3 advertise more than one SSID, so I can have a private network and a public network to provide Internet access for guests?
3) I had a very frustrating problem setting it up as a webserver using the <name>.myoenb3.com service. I configured the relevant port-forwarding on my DSL router more than once, to apparently no effect, ending up with re-setting my DSL router back to factory settings and rebuilding the configuration from scratch. It turns out not to have been the problem when I tried telnetting to port 80 and executing a HEAD / HTTP 1.0 - I got a response! In fact, when I use Internet Explorer, it works as well. But if I try Firefox 3.6 (yes, I know it is old) on both a Windows PC and a Linux PC, I never get a page up, and the connection times out. So telnet to port 80 works, IE works, but Firefox doesn't. Any idea what's going on?
4) The B3 web interface is nice and clean, but not well designed for somebody partially sighted using JAWS to navigate the site. It would be nice if it were made accessible. I'm no expert in this, but I think a few <alt text> tags are missing.
http://webaim.org/techniques/screenreader/
http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
http://www.ajmcclary.com/configuring-yo ... -jaws.html
If this comes across as overly critical, it's not meant to be. I certainly don't expect someone to leap into action and provide answers/solution over the next day or so. Rather, I hope this can be treated as constructive feedback.
Thank-you for building such a nice (and powerful) product.
Otixce
Edit: SSDi -> SSID
Edit2: Oh - and if this should be in the B2 & B3 support forum, please feel free to move it there.
I just got my 2TB B3, which of course I like very much, but (there's always a but), I have some niggles with it. They could be down to my inexperience, so I'm very glad to be educated, but if they are not just me being stupid, then I hope the feedback will help to improve an already very good product.
1) I have it set up in server mode behind a DSL router. The DSL router (a Thomson SpeedTouch 516i) is the dhcp server for the LAN. If the router gets powered down or reset, the connection to the B3 fails and doesn't come back until the Ethernet cable is physically disconnected and reconnected again. As I intend to access the B3 remotely while travelling, that could be a little inconvenient if I'm in another country and my home has a power cut... (The Ethernet cable from the DSL router is plugged into the LAN port of the B3)
2) It's a wireless B3, as I intend to use it to provide a wireless network, as my DSL router isn't wireless. When activated, the wireless network appears to be bridged to the LAN, not routed. The web-browser admin pages don't appear to offer a routed option here: although I guess it would be possible under the hood. Can the B3 advertise more than one SSID, so I can have a private network and a public network to provide Internet access for guests?
3) I had a very frustrating problem setting it up as a webserver using the <name>.myoenb3.com service. I configured the relevant port-forwarding on my DSL router more than once, to apparently no effect, ending up with re-setting my DSL router back to factory settings and rebuilding the configuration from scratch. It turns out not to have been the problem when I tried telnetting to port 80 and executing a HEAD / HTTP 1.0 - I got a response! In fact, when I use Internet Explorer, it works as well. But if I try Firefox 3.6 (yes, I know it is old) on both a Windows PC and a Linux PC, I never get a page up, and the connection times out. So telnet to port 80 works, IE works, but Firefox doesn't. Any idea what's going on?
4) The B3 web interface is nice and clean, but not well designed for somebody partially sighted using JAWS to navigate the site. It would be nice if it were made accessible. I'm no expert in this, but I think a few <alt text> tags are missing.
http://webaim.org/techniques/screenreader/
http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
http://www.ajmcclary.com/configuring-yo ... -jaws.html
If this comes across as overly critical, it's not meant to be. I certainly don't expect someone to leap into action and provide answers/solution over the next day or so. Rather, I hope this can be treated as constructive feedback.
Thank-you for building such a nice (and powerful) product.
Otixce
Edit: SSDi -> SSID
Edit2: Oh - and if this should be in the B2 & B3 support forum, please feel free to move it there.