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samtheman
Aug 26, 2012Aspirant
DLNA client over the WAN
With a handful of iPhone/Android apps such as Air Player, allowing you to connect to a DLNA server across the internet (by specifying the xml Description file location on the server), why is this feat...
StephenB
Aug 27, 2012Guru - Experienced User
I've also seen quite poor performance with ReadyNAS Remote (though I haven't tried it lately), and FTP is an old protocol that was not designed for streaming. Accessing over a direct VPN connection would work better than ReadyNAS Remote, but still might struggle with 3G (and hotspot wifi for that matter). This would also require a VPN software package on the router and the device.
Increasingly my laptop is just used to transfer to the actual player (phone, tablet, or my old iPod), I am not using it for playback very often. However, I agree that is would be nice if the PC could use the same streaming access methods as the phone. When I have a chance I will google a bit...
Increasingly my laptop is just used to transfer to the actual player (phone, tablet, or my old iPod), I am not using it for playback very often. However, I agree that is would be nice if the PC could use the same streaming access methods as the phone. When I have a chance I will google a bit...
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