So looks like I've opened up a fun discussion here, but I'll just say that the NSLU setup works great for me at my house. Everyone is wireless (54Mbps) and all systems are able to connect to it at decent speeds and I run backup jobs on the systems to copy any modified files in specific directories to it nightly. I love it. And the best part of all is that it is running on a very small, totally quiet (ok the drive fan makes noise), and low power footprint box. I really didn't want to have a huge box up and running to do the simple tasks I needed the box to do. So your mileage may vary, but to share files, have a central backup spot for pictures and small videos, and do other fun little things its great. I do have other systems that require high speed data transfer but I'd never use any sort of NAS with them I'd make sure the data was on a local internal drive. --j