In Part Two of my review of the LaCie 5big NAS Pro, I show you how to set up remote access and basic Wuala for cloud access. Read on for details.
In Part Two of my review of the LaCie 5big NAS Pro, I show you how to set up remote access and basic Wuala for cloud access. In Part One, I showed you how to perform the initial basic setup of the NAS unit. I experienced some flaky Wuala performance when I tried to rely on just UPnP to assign the server’s IP addresses, so I needed to set a static IP address. Wuala would report that the 5big NAS Pro was offline; sometimes, a reboot of the NAS and/or router would resolve this, sometime not, so I decided to go ahead and set up a static route and also a DHCP reservation for the 5big. I went ahead and deleted the static route, using only the DHCP reservation method in the end, but I’ll show you both options here.
Setting Up A Static IP Address
The 5big NAS Pro supports maintaining connectivity and remote access availability without setting up a static IP by relying on UPnP. This means that you can simply connect your 5big NAS Pro and let it and your router negotiate the IP address to assign, and your remote access site is available reliably in this setup. However, I found that Wuala would often lose connection with the 5big NAS Pro when relying on this setup, and solved the issue by setting a static IP address. This setup shows how to configure a static IP (a permanently-assigned, never-changing IP address) on a 5big NAS Pro using a Linksys EA6500 AC1750 AC router.
Log onto your router.
Click on Connectivity on the left hand side of the screen.
Click Advanced Routing and then Add a Static Route. Populate the information for the static route. Click Save.
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