Airport Extreme and External HDD not staying connected

Airport Extreme and External HDD not staying connected I have an Airport Extreme wireless router and I use the usb port on the back to connect my old IoMega HDD to it as sort of a fake NAS (until I have enough cash to get a Drobo).
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Guest [Entry]

"Maybe the drive is sleeping and the Airport is losing it?

I had an old HD that I used for media, it would spin down when not used, then eventually power itself off. When that happens I had to reconnect it completely to make it visible again, as it could no longer be woken by the device it was connected to.

Perhaps you could continuously connect to the drive? A Finder or Explorer window left open on a folder on the share could prevent the drive from sleeping."

Guest [Entry]

My Airport Extreme was stable with a 1 TB external USB used for time machine. I was running 7.3.1. I got the bright idea to upgrade to 7.4.2, and then I could not access my external drive at all. I reverted to 7.4.1, and that allowed me to connect to my drives, but now everything is running extremely slow. Internet feels like a 56k connection. I'm going to have to go back to version 7.3.1.