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2.5 stars
"Don't come close to the MioNet software"
Pros: The disk itself works fine
Cons: The MioNet software is terrible. How WD bundled it?
Summary: The only way to work is to map MyBook as a network drive. I worked with MioNet support team for days. E-mails and phone calls. They were very responsive but they couldn't help me at all! The MioNet software turned "offine" and that was it! It was a torture! I spent hours on hours on this! In the end, MioNet support helped me do a direct mapping and that's how it works for me.
Even when the connection was active via MioNet it disconnected every few minutes.
Files that you copied via MioNet are readonly when you access through direct mapping.
I don't understand how a respectable company such as Western Digital put their faith on this lousy software. If you just put the CD in and click 'next-next' you end up with something that doesn't work. Or works for one day. and disconnects.
I have never seen something like that in my whole life.
I also can't understand CNET review which praises the MioNet software (WD Anywhere Access). You should work with more than three minutes! I will not believe your reviews anymore!Updated
I don't understand how a company such as Western Digital bundled this awfull software. If you put the attached CD in, click next,next - it may seem to work - but then it turns offline, and disconnects every few minutes.
The only way to work is do a network drive mapping. I worked with MioNet support team for days and they could do nothing.
WD are going to get into real trouble with this MioNet adventure.
It's a pitty. Because I now use the disk over LAN and it works great.
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Hello,
I think there is new mionet release this year which is a total rewrite. I don't have any issue with the new version which is fast and running very well, you should try it. -
Run away from this Mionet and WD network HD's.I concur with all the bad reviews; I have terrible time with the WD network hardrive and the Mionet software. The HD has a USB but it?s an especial cable that I have not been able to find it anywhere. It?s the last time I buy WD hard drives.
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My experience is exactly the same ... run from this software.
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I want to know how you got it running on lacal network without web access. Did you have to reload everything in the Public folder?
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I have a WD My Book World Edition 2 and I also think Mionet is crap!! I had the Offline problem also, but it turned out Norton was blocking it.
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I got my World Edition NAS Server about 2 weeks ago. Had lots of problems with drive designation remaining at K:. It kept moving to L: and M:. Also had problems with directories/folders being written but entire folders of files going missing. Some time it would work sometime it would not. I was loosing faith in the product.
Then my notebook crashed - blue screen of death. Recovered and ran Zone Alarm's Internet Security Suite 2007, with anti-spyware setting to 'Deep Inspection' and anti virus file size set to max 50MB. Went through every file etc, found 5 deadly trojans!!! Previous s/w oand settitngs did not catch these.
Deleted, recovered, and then found that some Windows upgrades would not install, and some h/w driver upgrades would not install.
Notebook crashed again 2nd blue screen of death in 4 days. Did a complete wipe out of the notebook C: drive by reformatting and then re-installing every software, and checking of updates and then re-install next s/w, followed by its upgrades, etc., slow painful work - took 4 days.
Got MIONET working, like a clean whistle. No file glitches, stable drive designation, easy and without problems.
Recommend that those with NAS drive problems consider checking for viruses, trojans, and related problems, on your PC. Some malicious s/w is preventing correct MioNet set-up.
Hopes this helps.
Ben -
It is absolutely SHAMEFUL that the WD Installer advises the user to install MIONET with no disclaimer that you ARE IN FACT transferring information to a remote server outside your network.
That no additional notice is provided notifying the user that the (garbage) MIONET software is NOT REQUIRED to use the device successfully is just totally outrageous. -
This post would be much more useful if it contained instructions as to how to network the drive ourselves as you have
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I have recently bought one of these machines and it works like a dream and I not even need to contact the support team at all.
I just followed the instructions on the cd so you may have had a faulty product in that case I would not go around writing bad reviews for an entire system (product range)
In my opinion this is a fantastic software.
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Western Digital MyBook World Edition NAS server:
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