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Wow, that's not super simple for a non-techie like me. Fortunately, after rebooting the system, it has stayed in the low single-digits for CPU usage. I suspect after turning off Twonky, it required a reboot? Thankfully, I haven't had to attempt the backdoor :)

This is just going to take a wee-bit of hand holding if you're willing... I've used Putty to do some similar things with my Q-N-A-P box, but I don't see an SSH option in the stock firmware for the NSA310s. If you could point me to where I can enter command line, I should be good to try your suggestion.

Yup, that's exactly what I suspected happened. For grins, I've added a true static address at the NAS now so no matter what, it'll maintain the correct one. But still, doesn't explain why the GUI and file sharing stopped, but the ping at the original correct IP was still responding. ETA: The ip was statically assigned in…

Thanks for the reply. Shortly after posting my request for help, I discovered a router in my barn - which I had been using as a guest router (vs. access point) - which I recently moved. When I plugged in the LAN data connection, I accidentally plugged it into one of the LAN ports instead of the WAN port. Thus, I had two…