questions on using ASUS Download Master app

[kohyewchuan]

There's a new ASUS router on sale in the market where I lived and it has a torrenting app (built-in) called Download Master. Is it ok to use for torrenting BakaBT torrents. if it is not supported I shall go to get the DNS-323 NAS with Transmission (default built-in client for torrenting + whitelisted). However, the ASUS router is a much cheaper option.

does anyone on BakaBT use it? Any recommendations.

P.S. Wanna go 24/7 seeding but using a gaming rig PC to do it is hurts my wallet.

[CRxTRDUDE]

Btw, It's still preferable to use "uTorrent". Tinkering something you don't know might do something bad.
But it doesn't hurt to try...

[K7IA]

Check if "Download Master" is based on libtorrent or anything that is whitelisted here, look at the online documentation.

otherwise go with D-Link

[kohyewchuan]

Utorrent will be my main client and always. However, seeding with my only PC (mentioned gaming rig) cost a lot of electricity bills. At least the D-link built-in Transmission client is whitelisted + wikia on making to work. The ASUS router on the other hand seems on par with D-link's. Building a mini PC to run utorrent cost a lot than getting an NAS.

Until there's an NAS that uses utorrent in the future, I had to stick my seeding on the one available.

reply K7IA:
thanks for the tip, will look into it.

"Life isn't always what you expected. Be grateful of you have"

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Even if the client uses libtorrent(-rasterbar), it'll still have it's own peer_id, and thus not be whitelisted.

Your only hope (for using that NAS with BakaBT) is to install one of the whitelisted clients on it, which you can do with some NASes, but not others; I don't know about this one.

[Freedom Kira]

Why not just build an Atom system? The power use is probably comparable to any NAS you can find anyway.
If you're going low-scale, Atom with one boot drive and one storage drive, both 5400RPM, is plenty, and shouldn't use much power. Not to mention it'd be quite a bit cheaper (Atom+board is less than $100, case less than $50, RAM around $50 for 1GB), unless you want to buy a Windows key with it. Not to mention it's easier to work with a system that has some kind of graphical interface.
And if you want to up your torrenting, you can add more drives and throw everything into a RAID array (or not, whatever). You just need a PCI RAID card.

[kohyewchuan]

Wow, you're right. The Atom system really cheap to built + low electricity. Thanks for this valuable info.

[Freedom Kira]

Pre-built NAS systems are generally pretty expensive. I've looked into them before and they always seem to be more expensive than a more usable equivalent. I myself have an Atom system with 5 drives connected, 4 of which are in RAID 5 and one is a boot drive. Have you seen prices for 4-bay NAS systems? They're ridiculous.