Does Torrent traffic to NAS go through my laptop?

Question

If I am running utorrent on my laptop but direct the download file to go to my NAS that is hard wired to the router (Linksys E3000) is the traffic still directed to my laptop then uploaded wirelessly to my NAS or will it be sent directly from my router to my NAS?

I really wish my Buffalo Linkstation had a bit torrent client built in but it doesn't. I hate to spent the money on another one that does.

Solution 1

Yes, the data will be going through your laptop.

The program that's controlling the download is running on your laptop so the data has to go through it.

It won't be written to the laptop's hard drive first, the client should write it directly to the NAS drive.

Solution 2

The data will be downloaded from the internet to your laptop, then your laptop will write the data to the hard drive. The fact that the drive is over the network doesn't really matter to windows.

You would need either a router, or a NAS that can act as the torrent client.

Comments

[Zooks64]

After some research I figured out that I would need an NAS with a built in torrent client if I didn't want to be using my laptop's bandwidth to transfer the files to my NAS. I broke down and ordered a new NAS.

[Zooks64]

I opened up the Wireless Network Connection Status to see how much traffic was going through my wireless card. Sure enough it was coming down and right back up to the NAS.

[Zooks64]

I have looked into the dd-wrt but I'm not interested in modifying my router. It works exactly the way I want it to without doing that. I just wanted to get around it having to come to my machine then to the NAS. I decided to buy an NAS with a built in torrent client.