Netgear STORA restrict access to outside internet

http://www.netgear.com/stora

The Stora is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) that lets you easily store and share your media. It comes with 1 TB of Storage and allows for the insertion of another 1 tb so that you can use RAID and mirror your drive, in case of drive failure. I recently purchased this drive and I have so far found it to be a great drive. The only feature that i did not like, was the fact that in order to get it to setup you need an active connection to the internet. What STORA does is register you with mystora.com. This lets you access your drive and files from anywhere. For those of you that do not feel quite comfortable having an open connection to your network, you may not like this feature. If you have a Linksys Router, it can be quite easy to disable this service and continue to enjoy your drive.

Navigate to your Linksys Router setup page. Then go to the "Access Restrictions" tab. From here you can easily setup a restriction that does not allow "internet connection" for a specified ip address. For this to work you will need to make sure that your STORA drive is set up with a static IP.

Once you do this, the drive will only be available on your local network.