Posted: 12/12/2012 2:57:36 AM EDT
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I am a geek but can't figure out how this works. I bought a Toshiba Personal Cloud 2 TB network hard drive. It can be accessed remotely over the internet. I have the software on my iPad to access it remotely and it works. The question is, my ISP assigns my IP address dynamically. It didn't configure the ip addresses in the iPad software, just provided a 'PIN' number that uniquely ids my Personal Cloud device. How the heck is the iPad software finding it on the internet? What happens when my IP address the ISP assigns me changes?
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Quoted: It could also be talking to a dynamic dns service. I know some routers and cameras that do that. Though if that where the case I think you would have to sign up I think the drive is broadcasting its IP periodically to Toshiba servers. That is the only way I think a pin # only get's the software to it. These things are pretty cool, although this is a new to market product, and the software reflects that. Lot's of things I hope they fix in updates. For instance, uploading and downloading via the iPad software only works via the 'public' folder, even though you log into the software as a user you setup on the drive, I want to be able to hit my private shares I setup for my user id. Little things like that they need to resolve. |