Here's my set-up:
My wife and I each have a Toshiba laptop. I have a 1 TB WD external HDD connected to my computer.
I made the external HDD a shared drive so that my wife can access it through the wireless LAN.
Here's the problem: It's slow to load a 5 MB photo through a wireless network!
My proposed solution: Buy a new external HDD that has two USB outputs and connect both computers to it. Use my current external HDD as a backup (that I would store remotely in case of a fire or something like that).
Is that a good solution? Or should I buy a hub and connect the HDD and both laptops to it?
And which external HDD should I buy? A lot sell for <$100, but I'm not sure which ones are reliable.
Thanks!
My wife and I each have a Toshiba laptop. I have a 1 TB WD external HDD connected to my computer.
I made the external HDD a shared drive so that my wife can access it through the wireless LAN.
Here's the problem: It's slow to load a 5 MB photo through a wireless network!
My proposed solution: Buy a new external HDD that has two USB outputs and connect both computers to it. Use my current external HDD as a backup (that I would store remotely in case of a fire or something like that).
Is that a good solution? Or should I buy a hub and connect the HDD and both laptops to it?
And which external HDD should I buy? A lot sell for <$100, but I'm not sure which ones are reliable.
Thanks!