I put a ton of his movies on an old hard drive that I have and this thing streams without a hiccup to his iPad

My iPad can't access the files on my hard drive with this.

ON TO the external hard drive from my

Just copy the relevant media onto the external USB hard drive, and the kids can watch whatever they want, without me having to worry about having my important data on the Wi-Fi system

One of the devices I wanted to access the external hard drive with is a PC, but this was where I ran into some problems in configuration

Finally, note that an alternative to using an adapter for your external hard drives is to use routers that are equipped with the ability to make external drives WiFi accessible (e.g. TripMate Wireless N Portable Travel Router -- this one is portable, requires no external power once it's recharged, and serves as a battery charger as well)

I use this for not only external hard drives but memory sticks as well and couldn't be happier

If I knew I had to buy a Toshiba Portable Hard Drive for another $65.00 plus a USB cable which is not included, I doubt I would have wanted this Wireless Adapter

It does not come with a USB cable that must be attached to the external hard drive

The adapter works great if you have a compatible portable Hard Drive or purchase a Toshiba one, but keeping the facts in such small print is just irritating to me, so I have to give it 2 Stars

You can, for example, store music and photos on the hard drive and then access them remotely from your smart phone or a laptop.

I bought this to connect it to my 3TB external hard drive.

I bought this to easily backup my photos and videos from my iOS devices to a hard drive, this however cannot do that.

Once you have your hard drive and wireless adapter plugged into each other and a power source, you need to connect your phone to the adapters wifi and then open the app

The huge difference, however, is that 5 minutes out of the box and with help only from the Kingston Quick Start guide, I was up and running complete with my USB hard drive, password protected wireless, and pass-through internet access.

I purchased this device to access my Toshiba 750gb usb 3.0 hard drive.

Similarly you can save files from your wireless devices to the hard drive using the Toshiba adapter

Now you can run the APP.It all sounds so simple, until you realize that your Windows 7's portable hard drive is not supported or compatible with this Canvio wireless adapter, even though it says it is.

For use in the car make sure you have a USB power supply over 2 amps or it won't spin a portable hard drive.

The teensy print stating I MAY have to purchase a Toshiba portable Hard Drive at a $65.00 cost is just not up front enough for me

Then you read the fine, fine print, which states: Portable Hard Drive Sold Separately

I thinkt almostev everyone I know hasa portable hard drive

the biggest hard drive

Go to Start/This PC/Your hard drive (c) and select it without opening it (single click).

Plugging my hard drive into my computer directly really does serve me just fine, and is a bit faster as well

Future compatibility of non-Toshiba portable hard drives may vary

We plugged in the external hard drive, tried to download and launch the app, etc

This is a great wireless adapter for a portable hard drive or memory stick

My wife and I share this devise with one hard drive connected for music, movies and music videos

I finally checked some other reviews on here and saw that this drive is not compatible with Mac HFS formatting.

I recomend to spendt he money for Wireless Hard Drive, not for useless adapters

only the settings, you change the settings to your local ssid and network and then there is no way to connect to the hard drive itself, this device really deserves a zero rating, but amazon does not allow that

I connect to my hard drive

I have two mass storage devices I wish to use, one is a 1TB hard drive with 1 FAT and 1 NTFS partition, the other is a bike computer with 2 FAT partitions (<4GB)

I have now downgraded the expensive WD Wireles to a dumb external drive, and, guess what, connected to the Toshiba wirelesi and what a laugh on the NERDS at WD

My main reason for wanting to have the Canvio was so I could set up an external hard drive to act as a type of storage server that I could access with all of my devices

This is a great wireless adapter for a portable hard drive or memory stick

So not only would I need to reformat my 3TB hard drive, I wouldn't be able to write to it afterwards

Future compatibility of non-Toshiba portable hard drives may vary

I bet in a few months many drives will add this wireless feature so Windows drives can work with Android devices wirelessly.

Also specs on Amazon say 1 MB hard drive, reviews say 2 TB is the limitation

I purchased a Toshiba external hard drive as storage to backup all of my files on my computer and

I bought this to stream videos from my hard drive and SD cards to my Nexus, because the Nexus has no SD card slot

All that being said, the transfer rate for the hard drive to the computer when it's used as an external server for file transfer only clocks in at about 1.8 MB per second when transferring files

off of the external hard drive.

That means that you need to disconnect the hard drive from the wireless adapter, connect it to your computer, copy files on it, then connect it back to the wireless adapter to see your content.5

like I am, you will not be able to transfer files from your iPhone, iPad, etc to/from your external hard drive with this wireless

Once I got a hold of one I saw I could set up the external hard drive as I had hoped (most of the other wireless external drives I have tried have not allowed me to do this

I thinkt almostev everyone I know hasa portable hard drive

Then you read the fine, fine print, which states: Portable Hard Drive Sold Separately

The teensy print stating I MAY have to purchase a Toshiba portable Hard Drive at a $65.00 cost is just not up front enough for me

Amazon and Toshiba sites both claims it works with any USB hard drive

For use in the car make sure you have a USB power supply over 2 amps or it won't spin a portable hard drive.

The hard drive wireless adapter package comes with the device and the power transformer/conductor

Installed with a new Seagate 8 TB external drive works great

Plug hard drive in and never get any type of indicator for the light

Now you can run the APP.It all sounds so simple, until you realize that your Windows 7's portable hard drive is not supported or compatible with this Canvio wireless adapter, even though it says it is.

It takes forever if you, like most humans, have a few hundred/a few thousand pics on your external hard drive.- Since it runs on its own WiFi network, when you decide to switch apps to another app that needs an internet connection, you have to switch wireless networks or shut off

Input "\\192.168.65.1" in Windows File Explorer, then you can find the network drive with "share" folder as entranceOther apps recommended for this device1

The hard drive must be formatted NTFS

bought this for $10 to go on to an old 2TB hard drive I had lying around, using it with my Lenovo Tablet and hooked up like a charm, downloaded app and everything was plug & play, I did download BS player as certain formats wouldn't play

The adapter works great if you have a compatible portable Hard Drive or purchase a Toshiba one, but keeping the facts in such small print is just irritating to me, so I have to give it 2 Stars

If I knew I had to buy a Toshiba Portable Hard Drive for another $65.00 plus a USB cable which is not included, I doubt I would have wanted this Wireless Adapter

I use this for not only external hard drives but memory sticks as well and couldn't be happier

A greater problem is for my computer: I can work with files on the hard drive, OR I can work online; I can't do both at once, not if I want to use this adapter.

You can not use a hard drive larger than 2 TB

Also, we use it at home so that there is a dedicated hard drive just for streaming, but I don't have to worry about security and having my desktop be the one doing the streaming.

The description on website is confusing, somewhere it claims all USB drive, but somewhere it claims any Toshiba portable USB drive

You hook up the adapter to the wall plug and the hard drive goes into the hard disk end and that's it.

It never made the hard drive visible on my network.

you can't beat the price!!. I am able to transform my portable Seagate hard drive into a wireless movie server

Just plug-and-play your hard drives and thumb drives because this wireless device is not worth the time or money.

Once installed you have wireless access to your external hard drive.

Purchased to stream video from a portable hard drive (Toshiba) to my phone (Android) for a road trip

Sometimes the drive did have to be mapped again (like if I rebooted my computer or turned off the external hard drive/adapter) and other times it connected automatically

However, there is one more thing you must do in order to send/receive files to/from your external hard drive

The wireless adapter and my external hard drive both require a standard USB cable

The design is slick and professional and not at all "in the way" when attached to an external hard drive

In addition, files downloaded from the external hard drive to your phone cannot be organized with folders

Amazing price for an incredible product, if you add a portable battery bank you can use it totally on the go without the need to plug it into an outlet at home, or even in your car, if you use it in Starbucks or dunkin donuts or any public wifi you can use it to keep your internet surfing & transactions without anybody on the same free network because with this device you can set your own password so taht only people you know can use the bridged connection from the wireless adapter to the internet, as well as the content on the attached USB hard drive or flash drive etc...

I just plug it into my verizon car charger, plug in a portable hard drive with some movies on it, connect to it with the "Wireless Adapter" app, and it works

I am running my 4 TB hard drive and it works perfectly

I teted this wireless adapter with about five hard drives

Through trial and error I determined that the product did not "like" my USB hard drive.

I was able to connect and see content on my hard drive, but I couldn't seem to upload any photos from my iPhone 6 to the hard drive

Existing files and media on the phone (your music, video, and your pictures in camera roll, for example) cannot be uploaded to the hard drive

Works wirelessly as described but what's not described is how excruciatingly slow it is to transfer files from iPhone/iPad to a hard drive using this

The relief I got when I received the item today quickly turned to frustration as I tried for literally an hour to install the device based on the little instruction sheet that came with the hard drive

Unfortunately, I found out (after I purchased it and tried to use it) that it's not compatible with a 3TB hard drive.

*NOTE: If you are formatting a section that has files, you will lose these files unless you back them up somewhere else on your computer!!After following these steps, my hard drive was readily accessible via the wifi adapter

*NOTE: If you are formatting a section that has files, you will lose these files unless you back them up somewhere else on your computer!!After following these steps, my hard drive was readily accessible via the wifi adapter

Under External, select your external hard drive but not the drop down name.4

I gave Map Network Drive plenty of time to find the Wireless drive, but after this I could use my external drive like a local drive from any device as long as I had it mapped out on that device

The router solution may be a more streamlined and less clunky means of making your external hard drives WiFi accessible.

I have a New Trent Power Pack that I connected the Toshiba Wireless USB Adapter and hard drive

Works like a charm and saves me the hassle of plugging into my hard drive each time.

I am running my 4 TB hard drive and it works perfectly

I really hope they don't have access to my personal info that is on my hard drive.

The thought was to pair this device with my external hard drive and create my own in house cloud storage.

Once you download the app (Toshiba Wireless Adapter for IOS worked best for me), all you need to do is plug the wireless adapter into a power source, connect your desired flash drive or hard drive, and launch the app

I just plug it into my verizon car charger, plug in a portable hard drive with some movies on it, connect to it with the "Wireless Adapter" app, and it works

Handy little device, worked as advertised with both my backup hard drive and all my thumb drives

The app lacks the ability, again on iOS, to upload your pictures or video to the wireless hard drive

I decided to buy this thing after having the USB cord from my external hard drive disconnect from my computer way too frequently

Maybe as others have said it isn’t compatible with my system and I need to buy a Toshiba hard drive.

Overall, this thing definitely sucks as far as installation and instructions go, as well as the fact that it takes a few minutes for my 1 TB hard drive to load to the point where videos aren't freezing

Purchased to stream video from a portable hard drive (Toshiba) to my phone (Android) for a road trip

and the you cannot get into the content of the hard drive

It allows remote devices to connect to a USB hard drive using a wireless connection.

The previous reviews were right: format the drive as NTFS, connect to your Internet to download the firmware update and it works like a charm

You do not get an error message if the hard drive isn't formatted correctly--it just says there's no hard drive.2