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how can I watch my media content from the hard disk attached in the router to my smart tv
i have a netgear n600 router (WNDR3400) in which i have connected a portable hard disk. now I would like to access the hard disk from my samsung j5500? is there any way for it? i want to access it directly without any pc.
please help :-)
It looks like your Samsung can stream from a DLNA server. Unfortunately, the WNDR3400 doesn't support DLNA. Some of the newer Netgear routers do.
Try connecting the hard disk directly to the TV's USB port.
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It looks like your Samsung can stream from a DLNA server. Unfortunately, the WNDR3400 doesn't support DLNA. Some of the newer Netgear routers do.
Try connecting the hard disk directly to the TV's USB port.
TheEther wrote:Try connecting the hard disk directly to the TV's USB port.
That's the best way to do it. Even if your router supports DLNA it can be a pig to configure on a TV. And USB will always be faster, especially if your TV uses wifi anywhere in the chain.
USB is best for streaming to the TV but it'll be a pain to move the hard disk back and forth between the TV and a PC in order to put more movies onto it. The next best thing is to get real NAS with a built-in DLNA server.
