“Can I ise this without the internet and just have it for my home office for our family to use via WiFi?”
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It does NOT have any wireless broadcasting on its own. Once it’s connected to your router via Ethernet, it will show up as a new drive to use as a backup storage device using Windows or the Mac OS. As an independent Apple tech, I set these up for many clients without ever creating a WD account and simply use it as a wireless Time Machine backup device. If you don’t have a wireless router and still want to use it as a wireless backup device, you could setup a wireless router without connecting it to the internet and create a wireless network for the sole purpose of having a backup drive. There are also other products that have a wireless feature connected to a drive as well, but I don’t think they are as large a capacity as this WD’s 8TB offering at this time (2018).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.When it comes to the My Cloud Home model, you CANNOT access the device without the internet. Other My Cloud models seem to have had this functionality but the Home does not.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, you can use it without the internet. Works great accessing from all computers but note your android phones will only backup pictures and videos. I believe this goes for iPhones and iPads too.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.In order to access the device you need the internet, Ethernet port connected from the device to the router.
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