I bought MBL 1TB a couple of months back, and installed that with my WIFI Router. The router is also connected to my DSL Model. So on that router I have 2 devices, 1 is MBL and the other is DSL. My router model number is TL-WR740N.
Off and on, there is a severe problem of disconnections, and daily, I have to reset the router and the MBL again and again. Every time i connect, after few time (some times 10-20 minutes and some time 4-5 hours) it just gets disconnect.
I mapped the drive as follow:
h: is mapped to public/local folder
z: is mapped to public folder.
I have tried different things but nothing seemd to work for example:
I have the network and wifi card/devices auto sleep/power management = not allowed.
I have tried to mapped using the MyBookLive and using the IP too, but nothing worked.
I have tried to reserve an IP in the DHCP of the router, but still the prolem is not fixed.
I still have to reset the drive and then struggle to reconnect.
Also, if it is connected, Windows 7, reads the whole folder again and again, even I make the folder optimized for documents - it works like a charm, but once it disconnect, i have to set the optimization again. Alos, open / saving the data on the drive is quite slow, is that becuase of the Router ? Should I get a new better speed router ? If so, can you please suggest whcih one ?
Here are some important info:
Sony Vaio Laptop Core i5
Windows 7 Home Premium
TP Link Router TL-WR740N
MyBookLive - 1 TB
Please guide me as I have this device for my day to day home office works and it **bleep** when I cant access a file and takes too long to reconnect etc.
The MBL does not disconnect when it sleeps. It’s on the network and accessible 24x7 – even if the disks are asleep.
Mine has been online for almost two years and I’ve never once had to reboot anything to access it…
So if you’ve got to choices there, then the issue is your PC for some reason…
So are the mapped shares just disappearing? Or do they go to “Disconnected” status?
If the latter, what happens when you just double-click the share anyway?
It’s not unusual for Windows to show a share as disconnected if it has not yet logged in / authenticated to the share – but when double clicking it, should immediately come back.
Some times the mapped drives shows DISCONNECTED and some times they show “Disappeared”
If I double click, windows 7 explorer shows the green moving bar at top like it is accessing the folders, but suddenly it shows the mapped drive not found error.
1 more development, (since I planned to no more use this piece of **it) today, when it was connected, I started to copy the files to other portable device, and I fell asleep, when I get up, (2 hours) I saw that nothing was copied and there was an error say can not copy ett, and bang, again the MBL was no more there.
I tried to reconenct, but now, its gone, its stuck at Blue Light.
I have really a very bad bad experience of this**bleep**.
That points more to your PC being the issue, though I can’t imagine why, because Win 7 seems to be pretty reliable.
But I say that because a mapped drive should *NEVER* disappear from Windows – Even if the drive is actually unplugged and taken away, the mapped drive should just say “Disconnected” on the PC. The only time a drive will “Unmap” is if you had NOT selected “Reconnect” option when you mapped the drive, and then subsequently logged off or rebooted.
So something is definitely wrong with your PC configuration if the mapped drive is actually arbitrarily “unmapping” itself.
For example, on my Work laptop, I have a couple of mapped drives to my MBL and MBL duo.
Right now, they say “Disconnected” because they’re unreachable from here at work. But as soon as I go home, they’ll be reachable again, and as soon as I double click one of them, it will automatically reconnect and will have access to it.
So you can try this.
When the drive is WORKING, open a CMD window, and issue the command
The blue light just means the disk has gone to sleep because nothing is trying to use it.
It goes to sleep when nothing access it for a period of time.
The disk will wake up as soon as any access occurs.
As I said in my first post, a blue light does NOT mean that the MBL is gone. It is still there, on the network, ready to wake up immediately if needed.
So what shall I do ? even after re booting my router and resetting mbl does not makes it back. Yello light flashes at some intervals, but random and rarely.
Have you tried pinging the drive when it disppears?
You can do this by opening a command window (Run → cmd) and then type “ping mybooklive”. It should respond. If it does your computer can see the NAS. If you get a “could not find host”, then you might have to use the ip address instead of “mybooklive”.
Okay, do you think that this Blue Lite is because of that ?
I don’t understand why you’re so worried about the color of the light.
But yeah, if your PC is dropping off the network, thus no longer able to access the MBL, of course the MBL is going to spin down and turn the LED blue. That is normal – that is what it’s supposed to do.
If you don’t want the light to be blue, then disable the Energy Saver feature.
