Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask. I need a little help a issue I am having with my local network.
I have a very unreliable internet connection. I can lose my connection 2-3 times a day. When the connection drops, I lose whatever connection I had the the nas. So say I am watching a movie or listening to music on my Nvidia Shield TV, when the router reports no connction to the internet, the movie or music stops playing and I get a unable to connect to library message.
My set up is quite simple: Sky Q router, 3X Nvidia Shield TV's, 2 PC's, Various games consoles all routed through Netgear GS116UK 16 Port Gigabit Unmanaged Ethernet Switch.
So say I am watching a movie or listening to music on my Nvidia Shield TV, when the router reports no connction to the internet, the movie or music stops playing and I get a unable to connect to library message.
How are you accessing the ReadyNAS? SMB/NFS, DLNA, Plex?
FWIW, my NAS and media players are connected through ethernet switches. The media players access the NAS shares directly using SMB. I can turn off the router during playback, and the video keeps playing - that's because the switches are routing the video at layer-2, and the packets never reach the router.
Watching a movie and pulling the router from the switch causes a loss of connection to the nas.
Interesting. It shouldn't, since the switch should be delivering the packets directly from the NAS to the media player (using the destination mac address in the ethernet frames).
If you are connecting NFS with the NAS hostname, can you try the NAS IP address?
Also, can you try disconnecting the WAN connection of the router (leaving it connected to the switch), and see if that also disconnects?
