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[Denti]

I’ve never had buffering issues. Until now. And I suspect it’s my new router, though I’m getting 5-6 times the speeds with it. This happens with video files bigger than about 15GB. These are 4K resolution. I had no issues before. I was able to play UHD rips of 70-90GB no problem over my wireless network. And that was when I had only 90Mbps speeds. Now I have upwards of 500Mbps.

Any idea where I might start trouble shooting? The buffering does not just happen once, but repeatedly. To clarify: the files are located on external drives attached to a server, which is directly wired to a router. The PC playing them is on the network and getting 500-600Mbps.

[Denti]

I think I had moved the external HD to a USB2.0 slot. I moved it to a USB3.0 and everything seems ok. Hard to believe that would be the source. I’ll report back if it isn’t.

[JimH]

Thanks for reporting the solution.

[Denti]

Everything seems to be going fine now. I guess the limitations of the USB2 created the bottleneck.

[Hendrik]

USB 2.0 is very slow when it comes to thinking about video playback. Makes a lot of sense that it wouldn't work with 4K video files.