Choppy playback from NAS, Cache issue?

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So, I’ve hooked up an apple time capsule as a wireless NAS in my house. It works perfectly. I get good transfer speeds, around 10 MB/s, so that should be plenty for streamning - which is good, since I have a bunch of video on it…

The thing is, although the Time Capsule shows up on my HUB, the streamning of video-files is very choppy.

I think I have pinpointed a possible problem; the HUB treats the NAS as a local source, and thus has no caching. This means that although the connection is way better than needed for the streaming, a slight bump in the wifi will cause choppiness…

Did anyone experince this, and found a possible solution?

thx!

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I don’t have a time capsule, but I did a lot of testing on that type of thing a while back.

Depending on the bitrate of the movie, the WD does buffer about 3 to 15 seconds of video.

I tested this by streaming from my NAS, and then unplugging the network cable of the NAS during playback and timing how long it took to stop playback.

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Thx for the reply - this clarifies a little bit. Since the buffering time is variable, I guess this means that the HUB caches a certain amount of data, say 10 MB or so, and depending on the files bitrate this makes 3-15 seconds…

I will do a little more testing, it could be related to the time capsule and not the HUB. Since I had problems with this from my macbook, using VLC, as well…

on to more testing…