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Problems Streaming Media Files from NAS
At present I can access my NAS from my media player and play media files without any fuss. Unfortunately the movies will all freeze at some random time usually between 2-15 minutes. Once frozen, th...
cmh75 wrote:
I am able to stream media files stored on my Synology NAS to my pc, just not the beyonwiz media player.
I seem to remember that some modems were fussy about the ethernet cables used when connecting to the Orbi (I think it was the Orbi).
Anyway it's not a big cost to get a new (cat6 perhaps) network cable to check.
Are you running two network cables to your synology with link aggregation enabled? If so you’ll need to disable it and remove one of the connections. The orbi doesn’t work properly with it. When I was running with link aggregation enabled I’d get random freezes when streaming movies from the NAS.