Linksys by Cisco 1 TB Media Hub with LCD

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 11.2 x 9.4 inches ; 6.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001M0MPKK
• Item model number: NMH410
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 7, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

	"The sleek, intuitive interface does an excellent job of both searching for and organizing photos, music, and movies. Storing and streaming media might not be novel, but it's never been this user-friendly." "…presents an easy way to consolidate and navigate through all of your networked audio, video and photos."

Unlike other storage solutions, Media Hub organizes your videos, photos and music for you!

Music
Easily search and play your music collection by title, artist or album. Want to listen to your music at the office or when you’re traveling? Just access your Media Hub over the Internet.

Photos
Media Hub gathers all your photos, even if they are scattered across multiple computers to create a more complete digital photo collection.  Now finding the photos you want is quicker and easier. And you can share them with family and friends over the Internet right from you Media Hub.

Video & Movies
Home videos or downloaded movies take up an enormous amount of room on your computer.  Move them to the Media Hub and make sure that they are safer and easily accessible.  Media Hub stores hundreds of hours of home videos or high definition movies.

Includes two hard drive bays. With the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub it's easy to view and listen to your digital memories on any PC, laptop, or TV(2) in the house. The Media Hub consolidates songs from the same album but stored on different PCs into one virtual album. And when you’re traveling or away from home, you or your family and friends can remotely access your media from anywhere in the world through an available Internet connection. Now you can upload and instantly share your digital photos or listen to your entire music library right from the Internet without lugging around a hard drive. Remote access is available free from Cisco for the first 12 months after you sign up (thereafter fees may apply). Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs also include automatic backup software so you can save your treasured photos, music, and videos in one device should your computers ever crash or are stolen. Media Hubs have also been engineered to be automatically recognized and accessed by Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio components, so you can get your digital music off of your PCs and playing throughout your home.  

Product Features:
10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet port for incredibly fast file transfers to Gigabit capable routers or switches * Vibrant color LCD display for monitoring status of the device or activating tasks * Includes Ethernet cable * Includes power adapter with power cord *  Two USB ports for additional connection to external USB hard drives * Two SATA  hard drive bays * UPnP Certified * Integrated flash card reader

Introducing Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs
You love your media, so treat it well. The Media Hub makes it easy to organize, access, and share your digital video, photos, and music--around your home and around the world. With massive capacity, intelligent aggregation, and media-optimized sharing and file-serving capabilities, it’s an ideal way to manage your material, enjoy your entertainment, and share your memories. Show your media how much you love it--give it a Hub.  


Store Your Treasured Files
Find It, Store It, Access It 
The Linksys by Cisco Media Hub finds your files where they live on your home network. Got three songs on your laptop and the rest on another computer? It’ll find them and organize them by artist and album. Same for your photos, movies, and documents. So your files are accessible and orderly, in one place, whether you’re at home or on the road. 

Share with Family & Friends
Web Access--It’s a digital photographer’s dream. If you shoot a lot of photos and have had issues emailing them, then the Media Hub offers you a better way. Thanks to our remote access hosted by Cisco, you can give out your Media Hub’s Web address so friends and family can view your photos in the same place. 

Remote Streaming and Downloads
Music fans know that their favorite songs are more enjoyable when they’re accessible. Imagine if you could set the mood anywhere you go with just the right track, or DJ a party without bringing a thing. Movie buffs and home videographers can also upload and download wherever they go. So no one has to miss those first steps. 

Media Readers (NMH400 Series)
With the Media Hub 400 series, you can even pop your SD card right into the Media Hub, skipping the PC step entirely. Off on an adventure? Stop in an Internet cafe to upload photos remotely to your Media Hub’s Web address, so they’re more secure and available for viewing. 

Now Playing: 3 HD Streams at Once
Play your media around your house. The Media Hub is capable of streaming three simultaneous high-definition video streams. So you can have a dance party in the living room, a photo slideshow in the family room, and movies for the little guys in the basement.

Automatic or On-Demand Backup 
Photos, home movies, and precious documents are irreplaceable. But they’ll be safer and more secure with timed automatic backup. The files in the folders you choose can be automatically copied to the Media Hub on a recurring basis. So you never have to think about backing them up again. 

Expandability 
You’ve got options. Use your own hard drive, or choose one of ours. Media Hub models are available with hard drives and there’s an extra drive bay so you can add another hard drive. Depending on your hard drive configuration, you can have room enough to fill your Media Hub with hundreds of thousands of photos or music files, and hundreds of hours of movies.

How Does Streaming Work?
The Media Hub plugs into your wireless router and then streams your files:  

The Media Hub’s software interface makes it easy to view and play your photos, music and movies right on any PC on your home network. You don’t even need a live Internet connection.	If you have a PlayStation3, XBOX 360 or other media extender/DMA, you can stream movies and slideshows from the Media Hub to your TV.	UPnP-enabled wireless music bridges or receivers, including Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio systems, can play digital music stored on your Media Hub.

Other Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs



Linksys by Cisco Media Hub with LCD (Model #NMH405)
• Includes one 500 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive powered by Western Digital GreenPower™ technology and an additional bay to add another
• Accepts Compact Flash devices, SD cards and Memory Stick, plus files found within your network
• Manage your storage space with a built-in full-color LCD (or from PC or Web) 

 

 

 

Linksys by Cisco Media Hub (Model #NMH305)
• Includes one 500 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive powered by Western Digital GreenPower™ technology and an additional bay to add another
• Accepts files from USB devices, plus files found within your network.
• Manage your storage space from your PCs or the Web 






Other Great Products That Work with Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs 

Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio
Invite a Whole New World of Music Into Your Home. Open up a whole new world of music to play throughout your entire home. Access millions of songs from Rhapsody®(3) or thousands of radio stations from all over the planet with RadioTime®(4). Play from your iTunes®(5) libraries or from your iPod® with the Docking Station. Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio makes it all possible. The leaders in networking technology bring you a whole new audio solution that brings all this music to your fingertips. Send and control music to every room in your home--wirelessly! Send different music to different rooms or the same songs for the whole house in precise synchronization.


Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Routers (Model #s WRT610N, WRT310N)
Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N is an ideal technology to deliver audio and video throughout your home. Connect a Linksys by CiscoMedia Hub to a Gigabit Ethernet port at the back of a WRT610N or WRT310N router for incredibly fast file transfers between your home’s PCs and your Media Hub. With the Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system and a Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N router, there’s no need to hire contractors to drill holes in your walls and run cables throughout your home, to connect devices to one another. Now you have a system that’s quick and easy to install and place virtually anywhere in your house(6).

 

An Internet connection is required to access Internet services and Internet radio. Internet services availability may vary by country. A wireless router is required. A Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router recommended for best performance. A computer equipped with Adobe Reader is required to view the User Guide. IR Remote Control does not have full functionality with Player. Not all MP3 players may be compatible.  Specifications are subject to change without notice. Linksys, Cisco and the Cisco Logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries.  Copyright © 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 
1 - Includes Remote Access service for one year from date of purchase. Fees may apply thereafter and are subject to change. 
2 - Viewing media on a TV requires a UPnP-compatible digital media player
3 - Rhapsody is a registered trademark of RealNetworks, Inc. Rhapsody account required to access Rhapsody service.
4 – RadioTime is a registered trademark of RadioTime, Inc.
5- iTunes and iPod are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. “Made for iPod” means that an electronic accessory has been designed to connect specifically to iPod and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple performance standards. Apple is not responsible for the operation of this device or its compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Other brands and products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. 
6 - Maximum performance derived from IEEE Standard 802.11 specifications. Actual performance can vary, including lower wireless network capacity, data throughput rate, range and coverage. Performance depends on many factors, conditions and variables, including distance from the access point, volume of network traffic, building materials and construction, operating system used, mix of wireless products used, interference and other adverse conditions.

Product Description
Enjoy your digital music, photos, and videos throughout your home! The Linksys Media Hub stores your favorite media files, and lets you view and listen to them on any PC, laptop, or TV¹ in the house, or through the Internet anywhere in the world! The pre-installed hard drive holds thousands of photos or songs, or hundreds of hours of DVD quality video¿, and the empty second drive bay and two USB ports let you add even more storage as your collection grows. The Media Hub presents your music, photo, and video collections in an attractive "catalog view" from most web browsers. There are no confusing network addresses to remember; give your Media Hub a personalized "name" (i.e., "Smith-Media"), and just type it into your browser to view the catalog. Use the same name to log in to your Media Hub from a web browser anywhere, and get the same easy-to-use access to your media.³

Product Description

Enjoy your digital music, photos, and videos throughout your home! The Linksys Media Hub stores your favorite media files, and lets you view and listen to them on any PC, laptop, or TV¹ in the house, or through the Internet anywhere in the world! The pre-installed hard drive holds thousands of photos or songs, or hundreds of hours of DVD quality video, and the empty second drive bay and two USB ports let you add even more storage as your collection grows. The Media Hub presents your music, photo, and video collections in an attractive "catalog view" from most web browsers. There are no confusing network addresses to remember; give your Media Hub a personalized "name" (i.e., "Smith-Media"), and just type it into your browser to view the catalog. Use the same name to log in to your Media Hub from a web browser anywhere, and get the same easy-to-use access to your media.³

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea, Terrible Execution, July 30, 2009

By	Pyanfar Chanur (USA) - See all my reviews

Everything you read about the features and setup of the LinkSys by Cisco NMH410 MediaHub is true: it is very easy to set up and to configure other computers and it does offer a browser-based way to access your media.

The problem is that most of it doesn't work. The lion's share of the software is broken, buggy, or simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to be doing. A quick glance at the support forums will confirm this, and unfortunately it appears to be endemic for many of the models of MediaHub, not just the NMH410. The problems that you will encounter are:

1) The Media Hub Online tool will not "see" all of your files. They will be physically visible when you use a computer to browse folders, but they will not properly share or index, even if they meet the stringent requirements (no long names, no special characters in the names, must be in one of the supported file formats, etc.).
2) The Hub will continually rebuild its index of your files. In other words, "now you see some files, now you don't". It regularly "forgets" what's on the hub and starts over, one by one, re-reading every file. You have no control over when it does this.
3) The Media Hub will not respond when it is busy. I can play an album that I manually launched from the folder, but if I try to open the File Browser, look at Configuration, or even just click a bit too fast browsing the media, the MediaHub Online will throw me "MediaHub is Disconnected or not Responding" errors and stop taking any commands. I have to randomly try again and hope to get lucky and get in.
4) The website for Remote Sharing (in other words, logging in to your device through the Internet from another location) regularly has Server Timeouts. You never know when it will let you in or when you will just get a dead white page.
5) Some features reboot the hub without warning. You choose the option, it says, "Resetting the MediaHub" and the next thing you know, the browser interface fails, the hub loses all of its indexes, and it starts all over again crawling through your files and not responding to your clicks.

It's very distressing to see aggressive releases of software and firmware updates, whose release notes claim to have solved these problems...only to find that all the "fixed in this version" problems are still there. If these issues really were considered fixed by the company, then Linksys/Cisco's problems are much larger--they may need to consider a recall. Thus far, the only features that truly work are the ability to view files and folders on a computer and the optional computer backup program (which should only be used for files and not as a full system backup).

It should tell you a lot that there are actually two pieces of software embedded in this hub: the Linksys by Cisco software, and a third party tool called "Twonky Media Server". Twonky is better, but still not what this product promises above. Both have really bizarre problems that should never have made it to the sales floor.

I'm reaching the point of complete surrender. I managed to get indirectly engaged with the hardware/software development team and have offered them access to my hub to try whatever it takes to solve the problem.

As of October 19, 2009, my unit was used for the Beta and the new Firmware was released. If you own an NMH and are having the above problems, you should give it a try. Unfortunately for me, the best I have seen with this new firmware is that the fixes are spotty: almost seems to mostly-work one day, then it's back to completely acting up the next. The cruel part is that one day I'll discover an amazing new feature or two that I'd never seen before...and the next day it's gone again. Content appears and disappears, and the system is always rebuilding itself. I have spent many, many hours on and off support calls struggling with this device and I'm sorry I bought it. It's November 19th, 2009, and my NMH410 Media Hub is now back in the original packaging waiting to go out the door back to LinkSys. I've lost over 4 months trying to get this to work and I can't recommend it to anyone.

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not provide any security features, June 14, 2009

By	R. Pavanamurthy (CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was mislead by the claim that it would provide family and friends the capability to view the pictures thru web access. Basically it does provide the view capability along with delete and change. This product does not provide ANY access setting so that you safely share pictures and files with family and friends. It is always full access or no access at all.

The friends and family get the same access to the files as you would get as the owner/administrator.

How can one share the files with family and friends without making sure they cannot be modified or deleted?

Also the web access is only free for one year. Cisco may charge for web access after the first year of free access

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very nice network solution!, April 17, 2009

By	Mary Jo DiBella (Rochester, New York USA) - See all my reviews

I've been using this for about a month now, and I'm very happy with the purchase. I added a second 1TB drive to it, so I now have 2TBs of storage on my home network. It holds my iTunes library, my collection of movies (ripped from DVD for watching on my Archos), my Amazon-on-demand library, and lots of other stuff, with a bunch of room to spare!

I had tried other network drives in the past, and was very dissatisfied with their performance. This one responds very well to a wireless connection, and with my wired desktop PC it's whippy-fast!

Finally there's a network drive that performs well enough to actually USE.