I received the nas on a day off so I was home when the box was delivered, opened the box and studied the thing for a while. It looks good, has a separate power supply and both a mains cord and a network cable came with it.
A setup on the kitchen table was made and the power supply connected to mains and a netbook directly with the supplied network cable. The green light behind the front display turned on, while a series of messages appeared ending with an error message because no harddisk had been inserted yet. The display showed an ip-address and I setup the metwork card of the netbook to be the same except for the last number, the last number needs to be somewhere between 10 and 200 and different from the one displayed on the nas.
I started a command prompt on the netbook and typed: ping 192.168.1.2<enter> to get a reply from the nas. No reply, I verified the entered ip-address with that on the nas scrolling the display by tapping the buttons on the right of the display. When the text 'ip-address' appears just hold the button somewhat longer. The address was right so the cabling could be wrong. It appeared that either a crossed cable or a network switch is required. I had a switch at hand so I used that.
I gave it another try behind the command prompt on the netbook and typed: ping 192.168.1.2<enter> to get a reply from the nas. And sure I got a reply now, so the network connection was setup correctly.
Next I tried to connect with the internet browser, and guess what, no reply whatever! Once more I tried a ping from the command prompt that replied alright. It turned out I needed to place a least one harddisk before the internet browser will get a reply. Ahum, may seem logical to anybody, but not to me.
