Netgear Router ReadyShare USB drive + XBMC on Apple TV 2??

[logic]

hi all, i have been wanting to setup/get XBMC on Apple TV 2 for some time now. i thot about setting up a cheap NAS at home for the purpose as well. but after having done some researching, the budget of getting the ATV2 + NAS box (i picked Synology D211j) + drives will be a lil bit out of my budget...

so... i thot about the setup as captioned, since i already own a Netgear router with the ReadyShare feature. i think it's technically possibleconfused, but i just want to ask around if someone here has tried similar setup and is the performance acceptable?

 

[JeffLebowski41]

I have a netgear wnr3500L and have been having trouble getting the USB drives recognized. Only one time I was able to get the router to see a usb stick I put in (formatted fat32) and stream to xbmc on the atv2. Ever since then nothing has worked. I've reset the router, updated the firmware, put on ddwrt/tomato, tried two other usb drives...nothing works. I've pretty much given up on it.

 

[phantax]

I have a 2TB drive hooked to my Netgear WNDR3700 via USB.
Works fine streaming to XBMC on the ATV2 via DLNA or Samba sharing.

I did have problems with using FAT filesystems. If you format your drive with ext2 (Linux) partition it will work much better and have support for large files over 4GB.

 

[logic]

thank you very much for the replies! now that the untethered jb is out, imma hurry over to get an ATV2 and go home to try to set this up!