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Hi,
I'm searching for an embedded device (okay, it's router!) that supports more than just routing. It should be able to
# use external hard disks (per USB or firewire)
# download using a bittorrent or mule client over night without a pc running
# provide a fileshare for the connected external harddisk (preferable as NFS share to use it with a sat receiver for recording)
I thought about a router with openWRT running on it.
Which one would you buy?
Thanks for your suggestions, folks!!
If you are not that bothered about the routing you could try a Linksys NSLU2.
It's a little hardware NAS unit that supports USB. Has been heavily hacked.
It will run OpenWrt Kamikaze or a number of other open firmwares mine runs Debian. see http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
Hello,
thanks for your response. I decided to use an EPIA device for routing, downloading and NAS purposes. 
Regards
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