ZyXEL NSA325 User Manual

 Chapter 10 Applications

Media Server User’s Guide

A link for the NSA in iTunes under SHARED. Click it to display the NSA’s published media files as 
shown next. 

NSA link in iTunes 

The NSA’s download service downloads files from the Internet directly to the NSA. You do not have 
to download to your computer and then copy to the NSA. This can free up your computer’s system 
resources. The download service also handles your broadcatching downloads. See 

 for information on broadcatching. 

The NSA can download using these protocols.

• HTTP: The standard protocol for web pages.
• FTP: A standard Internet file transfer service.
• BitTorrent: A popular distributed peer-to-peer files sharing protocol.

Note: Do not use the NSA for illegal purposes. Illegal downloading or sharing of files can 

result in severe civil and criminal penalties. You are subject to the restrictions of 

copyright laws and any other applicable laws and will bear the consequences of any 

infringements thereof. ZyXEL bears NO responsibility or liability for your use of the 

download service feature.

The NSA needs a “.torrent” file for BitTorrent to download a file. The torrent file gives the NSA 
information about the file to be downloaded (and shared) and the tracker(s) (computers) that 
coordinates the distribution of the file.

When you add a BitTorrent download task in the NSA’s web configurator screens, you can copy and 
paste the URL of the torrent file. The NSA automatically downloads the torrent file and saves it in a 
torrent folder within the folder where the NSA stores downloaded files (the admin share’s 
download folder by default).