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My sister recently informed me, she would like to have some cloud storage at home. She is semi techie, but I would need to be some what easy to use and compatible with Android as well as Windows. I'm not sure what capacity she was looking for but a few TB's should be good. 

 

Is there a wireless option? I only ask because she has no more ports left on her router. If not, I guess we can get a switch. 

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You can access your NAS wirelessly on your home network through your router i'm pretty sure. If there are no other ports and wireless is not an option/too hard to set up then you could buy a LAN card for the pc or buy a switch. 

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I'd suggest you go for a switch (gigabit).

 

You could go with a cheap NAS and some drives as long as all you need is basic cloud storage and backup. If you need transcoding or plan to do much work off of it, you'll have to build your own system most likely. Unless you get a very high end consumer NAS.

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she would like to have some cloud storage at home...Is there a wireless option

 

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My sister recently informed me, she would like to have some cloud storage at home. She is semi techie, but I would need to be some what easy to use and compatible with Android as well as Windows. I'm not sure what capacity she was looking for but a few TB's should be good. 

 

Is there a wireless option? I only ask because she has no more ports left on her router. If not, I guess we can get a switch. 

 

Hey there Donut417,
 
You would need to plug the NAS device on the router in order for it to work. You can either get a switch or consider a self-built NAS with a wireless card on the PCI slot. 
From the pre-built ones I could suggest that you look at WD My Cloud and WD My Cloud Mirror. They are very easy to set up and manage and work perfectly fine with both Windows and Android. Here are links with more info: 
 
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