Long time lurker, first time poster so please be gentle.
We were away for the weekend and I discovered that 9now no longer offers your full local nightly news as a catchup service. I wanted to watch it and knew that it had recorded at home so looked for a way to download it off of my U4 to my Android Tablet that I had. Appears that it is not such an easy matter. Tried a few things to access the recording directly however no success. Ended up copying it to my PC (via Team Viewer -> Windows Explorer already set up with an SMB share) and then started File Transfer with Team Viewer which was frustrating slow (around 1.5MB per second). Got frustrated with that so copied it to my Google Drive and then downloaded it to the tablet from there (upload speed much faster - around 6MB per second - I'm on Internode HFC NBN - 1000/50).
When we got home today I had a bit of a play around with various things and found that FTP worked fine (over the LAN) once I had set myself up with a root password. This got me thinking that this might work well for me over the WAN as well although I do get the distinct impression that there are inherent security risks with having the U4 open to the web via FTP. I did try to access the files on the U4 via the Internet (with FileZilla) however kept on getting
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