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Tumabox Features
Tumabox is a 3 in 1 entertainment-IT hub for your home: wlan (wifi) router, media center (media player), NAS (Network Attached Storage) and much more. Just read the wiki to discover what this amazing little box can do for you and how it makes redundant several other boxes that you keep around the house.
Wireless Router
offers wired and wireless internet connectivity for your entire home
amazing speed for your wired connection: not just gigabit link but also true gigabit speed delivered
wireless access point for all your wifi appliances with speeds up to 300 Mbps with MIMO
improved wireless coverage thanks to the 2 detachable antennas
comprehensive easy-to-use web interface to configure all your services
supports most popular industry standard protocols
built-in preconfigured firewall
built with security in mind
Full HD (1080p) support with great performance thanks to the powerful hardware
supports 2, 4, 5.1 speaker configurations*
supports all common video, audio and image formats
you can watch and cathegorize your personal videos, songs and photos
huge amount of storage space for all your videos, songs and photos due to the integrated HDD(s)
great connectivity for your external HDDs, flash sticks or card readers via USB, SATA or eSATA
gives access to a tremendous number of online streaming sources via easily installable plugins; these include Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Canal+, Arte, Revision 3 and many many more
powerful interface with with movie information (posters, trailers, fan art, actors, crew, taglines etc.)
powerful customizable playlists
customizable weather forecast and news tickers
even more power provided by free open source plugins
NAS
provides a single storage point for all your home or remote devices
designed to run 24-7 due to its low power consumption; no more leaving the computer open just in case you need to access some document from your laptop
supports most common network protocols out of the box and even more for power users
accessible from virtually any
OS out-of-the-box (Microsoft Windows, Mac
OS, Linux etc.)
access your files with speeds up to 128
MB per second
access from wired or wireless
LAN
access from anywhere over the internet with encrypted connections
flexible storage capacities for your needs
possibility of increased random access speed when used in 2-HDD RAID-0 configurations
safeguard your data with RAID-1 configurations
great performance due to large RAM caches
provides access to your external HDDs, flash sticks or card readers via USB, SATA or eSATA
General features
low power consumption - designed to run and serve 24-7
extremly low noise - no fans included or needed; no noise at all when HDDs are in standby mode (not spinning)
powerful software on powerful hardware
uses industry standard protocols
uses open source software
designed with security in mind
offers even more power to advanced users via CLI
* some of the configurations may not be available in the interface and can only be configured via CLI