Ok identified the problem. The Asus had been configured as a router rather than an access point. Thanks to FM's for pointing out. Now thinking of replacing the D-Link with a ubiquity enterprise router and then a ubiquity AP.
Playing movies stored on HDD with the Amazon Firetv stick
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superczar
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I have fiddled around with ubiquiti APs
If you want to save yourself some heartburn, just get an Orbi
I understand it's a subjective opinion but this is one instance where a consumer grade device trumps an enterprise grade device fair & square
FWIW, my current device count on my LAN is ~60 and the orbi does not break a sweat
Ubiquiti may perform better with 100+ in an enterprise setup but in a home network, the orbi kills it with its link speed
If you want to save yourself some heartburn, just get an Orbi
I understand it's a subjective opinion but this is one instance where a consumer grade device trumps an enterprise grade device fair & square
FWIW, my current device count on my LAN is ~60 and the orbi does not break a sweat
Ubiquiti may perform better with 100+ in an enterprise setup but in a home network, the orbi kills it with its link speed
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Me, I have a certain dislike of mesh network....call it just a subjective notion.
I have a netgear nighthawk AX8 WiFi 6 router and a older Netgear nighthawk x6S ac4000. The AX8 is the primary and x6s is setup as AP. And they are connected with cat7 cable.
These two gives a WAN covering my whole house of G+4......4k movies, multiple devices. All work smoothly. As NAS I have 10TB (4+4+2) connected to these devices' usb ports. I use both KODI and PLEX configured for my media consumption.
I have a netgear nighthawk AX8 WiFi 6 router and a older Netgear nighthawk x6S ac4000. The AX8 is the primary and x6s is setup as AP. And they are connected with cat7 cable.
These two gives a WAN covering my whole house of G+4......4k movies, multiple devices. All work smoothly. As NAS I have 10TB (4+4+2) connected to these devices' usb ports. I use both KODI and PLEX configured for my media consumption.
Hi,
How many Orbi modules are needed ? I have to cover an area of about 1500 sq ft. Is it possible to cover this area with one Orbi ?
Wow the AX8 itself costs almost INR 30 K and the x6s almost INR 16 k. But the coverage of 4 floors seems to make it worth it.
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If it's a single floor , you don't need an orbi.
Something (relatively) cheap like a Netgear r7000p will give you good coverage with actual speeds upto 500-600 mbps in close range and 100+ in far away reaches (Assuming you can place it at a central location)
If you need to cover 2 floors (or if your wired connection is at one corner of a single floor) , you can look at a pair of Orbi or Velop
2 APs for G+4 is quite good. I tried getting wired APs to cover 2 floors but kept running into handover issues i.e. say a laptop or mobile stuck at low speeds when moving from 1 floor to another because the device would try remain connected with the far AP
I tried mesh routers with non dedicated backhaul links but the shared bandwidth usage on the same band for both the AP backhaul and devices would start affecting throughputs especially when multiple devices would connect
I have had a very good experience with Orbi with a 3rd dedicated backhaul link between the APs that actually maintains gbps+ link with minimal latency between the APs.
The biggest advantage I have seen with a mesh is the fairly quick switching that roaming devices are able to do and real world speeds of 700+ mbps LAN/ 200mbps WAN
The router and NAS in my case are a sopho firewall and a Linux server running co-hosted on a proxmox hypervisor
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Enkay78
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I waited for the sales....and got good discounts. Almost 30-40%
In that case should the router also be changed to the Orbi instead of just using the Orbi as APs? In my case the router is provided by Hathway and seems pretty basic one - Dlink Dir615. I have smart switchboards about 6 of them (Sonoff) + 5 mobile phones (across family)+ 1 PC+ Laptop + 2 AVRs + 2 media players + 3 Amazon Echos connected which is about 20+ devices. Out of these the 6 switch boards are on all the time and consume wifi. In such a case will the router (Dlink) act as a bottleneck?
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Move the routing duties to the new router.
Let all LAN devices be connected to the Orbi.
I am not sure what kind of connection/ authentication Hathway uses (PPPoe/ MAC filter/ combination of both)
To begin with, connect the Orbi WAN port to your existing Dlink
Connect all your wired/wireless devices to the Orbi.
The gigabit switches + the wifi on the Orbi will handle all LAN traffic on your devices with ease (I use Orbi with 60 devices on the LAN without a hiccup, and some of them really like to move data)
If you could however tell us more on your Internet connection (type/ speed/ authentication etc) then I could advise on the right setup on your WAN side as well
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Hi MaSh,
When i try to play 4K videos present in my 4TB powered external HDD through local network using VLC & Kodi in my firestick 4K it frequently keeps buffering, this happens only while playing 4K content.. So trying to check possibilities for directly connecting my 4TB and 2TB powered external HDD's to firestick 4K...
were your 1TB and 500GB HDD's NTFS formatted ?. Also the USB Hub you're using, is it a powered one ?. if possible please provide the model of the USB hub you're using...
Yes both drives are NTFS self powered. The usb hub is also self powered. Got it from office, so not sure what brand or model it is.
MaSh
sunshine_vsk
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Thanks, so your firestick is also directly connected to the USB Hub or its USB hub -->Y-USB cable --> Firestick 4K ?.
It's the second one. The Y cable is connected to the usb hub and then it feeds power and signal to fire stick.
MaSh
Hi Mash - Can you please share the link of cable for this. Additionally can you please confirm if it can work directly with 1 TB or 500 GB hard disk without powered USB hub.
Thanks and Regards,
Vinay
Hi,
This is the cable I am using. M. A. Enterprises Micro USB Male to 2.0 Female Host OTG Cable with Adapter and Power Y Splitter.
This cable is to feed power to the Firestick. So use one of the female inputs on the cable to feed it power.
MaSh
Enkay78
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I have similar problems like this....but found our that HDMI 2.0 needs to be enabled. Just check it's not an issue like this.
I found out this after my Shield Tv update to pie. VLC stuttered .....and I found out it's not due to network throttling but that HDMI 2.0 was not enabled in the system chain.
I have been trying to connect a usb pen drive to Firestick 2 through an OTG cable. Firestick 2 is taking almost 20 minutes to read a 32 GB pen drive. It was not reading the NTFS files > 4 GB. I finally found a temporary solution to play the NTFS files through Kodi installed on the Firestick 2 and my laptop and streaming from the laptop. Can any one suggest why the Firestick 2 is taking such a long time to read the files? TIA
Milestone25
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Firetv stick/ cube runs a flavor of linux slightly different than android. It recognizes only fat32 formatted hdds, which brings us to the fat32 limitation of recognizing a max of 2TB on a hdd. Anything over 2TB is a waste! Also at the same token, any movie over 3.9 GB will not be recognized.
I have a 4k Firetv cube and a OTA adapter which connects a 2TB hdd to it and am running it as my htpc. It has over 500 movies in 1080p in different folders and is seen by firetv without issues, and vlc player plays the titles all in full screen with amazing 10 band EQ ( it helps greatly as my tv is hooked up to a 5.1 surround sound. Its the cheapest way to create an htpc that works, looks, and sounds great!!!
Firetv cube's operation is lightening fast and it creates thumbnails for all the movies. The interface is zippy and most of all convenient cuz guess what, all is controlled with just the amazon firetv cube remote (plus my receiver remote)
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