Buffalo’s CES Announcements
Temporarily out of the U.S. wireless market, Buffalo released new NASes, including their first dual-drive, and an external USB Blu-Ray/ HD DVD drive.
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Buffalo’s Wi-Fi Shutdown
Buffalo Technology has issued an official statement about its battle ...
Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless A&G Network Media Player Review: Inexpensive, but no bargain
Like its predecessors, Buffalo's latest networked media player fails to impress.
Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Review: Good performer, odd design choices
Buffalo improves performance, but makes some disappointing design choices in its top-of-the-line NAS.
Update: CSIRO shuts down Buffalo WLAN shipments
Updated 6/21/07
Last Friday, a federal court in Texas granted Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, an injunction to prevent infringement of its wireless network patent by Buffalo-group companies in the US. The injunction prevents the sales of all wireless LAN products by Buffalo until a license for CSIRO technology is negotiated.
CSIRO had begun a test case against the Buffalo companies in February 2005 in Texas, after the industry had failed to accept CSIRO’s offers to license its wireless local area network (WLAN) patents on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) terms.
Buffalo TeraStation Pro II added to NAS Charts
I had been bugging Buffalo for awhile to get me ...
Buffalo announces 3TB NASes
Buffalo Technology today announced the 3TB versions of its TeraStation ...
Buffalo adds remote web access to NAS line
Buffalo Technology earlier this week announced its new Web Access feature for its LinkStation Live NAS products, including a music streaming feature.
Web Access provides secure browser-based access to any content stored on a user's LinkStation Live NAS by logging into www.buffaloNAS.com. The new feature is available for existing LinkStation Live customers via a free firmware upgrade and port forwarding is not required for UPnP-enabled routers.
Buffalo adds 11n / 11g wireless routers, ‘hi gain’ 11g USB adapters
Buffalo Technology today announced the addition of two new wireless routers and two extended range 11g USB adapters to its wireless product lineup.
The WZR2-G300N AirStation Wireless-N Nfiniti Router replaces the WZR-G300N AirStation Nfiniti Router. The single-band 2.4 GHz router is equipped with three external antennas, built-in DHCP server and 4- port 10/100 Auto-Sensing switch.It also supports a Nintendo DS Wi-Fi connection and Buffalo's AOSS automatic wireless security system.
The WHR-G125 AirStation Wireless-G High Speed Router replaces the WHR-G54S. Features include AOSS support, 4-port 10/100 switch and hardware switching from router to bridge mode.
Both routers have a NAT+SPI firewall and programmable transmit power. Security features include Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2), Buffalo's Privacy Separator and 128/64-bit WEP.
Buffalo LinkStation Live Review: Slower than Pro, but media it does show
Buffalo's "consumer" version of its speedy LinkStation Pro gains a buggy media server but loses some speed.
Buffalo Nfiniti Dual-Band Router: Double your Draft 11n fun
Dual-band draft 11n products are finally starting to appear. Tim Higgins looks at the first simultaneous dual band product, including the first-published throughput vs. range performance curves for 5 GHz draft 11n.
CES 2007: Networking creeps forward
CES 2007 is fast fading into yesterday's news. But before the memories completely die, Tim Higgins offers some thoughts on whether anything has changed in the past year in home and SOHO networking.