Next week, we'll delve into more detail on the QNAP TS-1079 Pro. In the meantime, after careful prodding of the wretched 2Wire product, it looks like I'll have to replace the gateway. For some reason it doesn't know anything about the QNAP device, and if the gateway can't see a machine on your network, then you're out of luck as there's no way to tell the gateway to enable port forwarding for that address! Who was the numbskull who thought that was a good idea?

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in Network World's Data Center section.