just a neat trick if you have a spare portable hdd at home.

1/ take a portable hdd (500 gig) non powered.
add a iomega iconnect (configure wireless with your network router)
unplug from router
attach a travel router and vola an external hdd for your ipad.
downside is both the iconnect and the travel router need power but works 100%.

Made a post recently about a similar device - Cirago NUS1000. The Cirago is cheaper, but the Iomega looks nicer and appars to have better set-up software, especially for setting up accessing the drives via the internet. Downside is that it doesn't seem to natively support set-up as a Media Server or iTunes Server like the Cirago.

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should be ok after this!

Originally Posted by epb

Made a post recently about a similar device - Cirago NUS1000. The Cirago is cheaper, but the Iomega looks nicer and appars to have better set-up software, especially for setting up accessing the drives via the internet. Downside is that it doesn't seem to natively support set-up as a Media Server or iTunes Server like the Cirago.

Originally Posted by epb

Made a post recently about a similar device - Cirago NUS1000. The Cirago is cheaper, but the Iomega looks nicer and appars to have better set-up software, especially for setting up accessing the drives via the internet. Downside is that it doesn't seem to natively support set-up as a Media Server or iTunes Server like the Cirago.

its not bad,
UPnP™ DLNA Certified® AV Media Server: provides the ability to stream photos, audio content and videos to a variety of media devices, such as game consoles (Microsoft Xbox® 360, Sony PlayStation® 3), audio bridges, iTunes™ players, picture frames, Iomega ScreenPlay products and more.
Photo Slideshow: integrated utility based on the Cooliris™ technology for quick browsing and sharing of pictures stored on connected hard drives.
Torrent Download Manager: the Iomega iConnect manages peer-to-peer file transfers without the need of a dedicated PC.
Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP): No touch, automatic transfer of photos from digital cameras via the USB port.

Total Data Protection:

• Native security support with robust username and password authorized access.
• RSA® BSAFE® technology protects installs and upgrades .
• Data Protection Software: Iomega’s full suite of data protection software is available for download. The suite includes; Trend Micro™ Internet Security, Iomega QuikProtect, Roxio Retrospect® Express Backup software, and MozyHome™ Online Backup service.

Ease of use :

• Simple 3-step setup process
• User friendly web-based management interface
• Web Interface accessible in 11 supported languages

Software Compatibility : Compatible with today’s most common backup software, web browsers, media devices and computers

Warranty: 3 years (with product registration)
(torrent download is crap) but the nearest hdd for the ipad is a wired connection.
it comes in for a 500 gig at $599.
this setup will cost about 170 eu or $200 inc hdd.

Thanks for sharing this nice trick.

cool (kind of)

Cool. I have several port hard drives. I understand the setup...could you post an example of a "travel router". But I don't understand how or within which apps you would utilize the storage. Thx

i have the iOmega connect and can upload/download files, music, videos etc to the ipad via the internet using icab web browser, works really well for £60

Hopefully Apple will include a USB port on the next iPad so these wacky workarounds can stop.