I tried it. It seems that you have to have an internet connection to mount the drive. I can not mount the drive without an internet connection, but after I mount the drive I can still access it even after disconnecting the internet. I seem to remember reading a thread about this before this site was up and running. Not sure about windows. I'm on a mac.

It's definitely local - your Pogoplug has an internet IP address and a local home one. Naturally, your router will route traffic locally.

if the central service can figure out you are on the same subnet as your pogoplug, it will tell the client application to talk to the pogoplug directly via its local ip address. otherwise it will use the tunnel via the central service.

Quake97 said:

454SS said:

Not convinced , if it uses a VPN tunnel to connect it will be connecting VIA your external IP not your local IP.

Really, do you think we're making this up? :) If you have another system in your home, try copying a file to/from it. Then do the same with the pogoplug. It'll be fast. If you do the same from outside your house, it'll be quite slow, depending on your home's Internet connection.

Joe

Does this mean that you only need the IP Address to log into a Pogoplug? All have rout access with Password of "ceadmin"? Say it isn't so! That's horrible.

well, since most Pogoplug's are behind a router, Shields Up will not be very useful. It would be better to use a Penetration Tool like NMAP to see what ports are open.

P.S. Since most folks are behind a router, you will be safe from outside attacks unless you explicitly open your SSH port in your router. In any event, it would be a good idea to change the default password using the PogoPlug web interface (click on Security) or just turn off SSH access (again using the Pogoplug web interface).

Cuyler -- Your right. Shields Up just lets you know what ports ON YOUR COMPUTER are open to the internet. For that to happen, the port must be open on the router and on the computer. If Shields UP reports the port closed or stealthed then either your router or your software firewall (or both) is doing that.

But think about it. Your Pogoplug is really a computer or mini server. Shields UP will NOT tell you what ports on the PogoPlug are open. You need to use a tool like NMAP to do that. I have found that appliance devices like POGOPLUG have open ports. they rely on you using the firewall built into EVERY router to protect you from OUTSIDE attacks from the internet. But these routers do NOT protect you from INSIDE attacks on the LAN. And if you have connected the POGOPLUG to a hotel LAN, the hotel's router will not protect you from any inside attacks from other hotel guests. That is why it is a good idea to turn off SSH or at least make sure you have a VERY strong password.

@Alex S. I have the same problem but maybe worse. I am trying to simply delete files from my pogoplug (about 15GB) and it has been "Preparing to delete" and "Discovering" files for over 9 hours now? Is the pogoplug really that slow?

UPDATE: I tried everything I could think of to speed things along but nothing seemed to work until I reformated my drives to ext2 format. They were originally NTFS. My connection and uploads is so much faster; keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way. :)

Mine eventually started working better, it's still pretty slow over wifi though. It's about fast enough to watch movies, but for transferring lots of files I've started using an ethernet cable, and the speed seems pretty good then. My big problem now is that when accessing over the internet, speeds are limited to about 30kb/s, which I'm pretty sure is a lot slower than I would get if it was just an FTP. I've been meaning to try OpenPogo or something and running an FTP directly, but haven't got round to that yet. Does anyone else find they get slower than expected speeds when accessing over the internet? Does running an FTP, rather than routing everything through pogoplug.com, help?