remote pc and mini ipad video streaming

[heehee62]

I'm trying to decide whether to put a new DS213 I'm buying in my mom's house or in mine. Which would you recommend?


She uses only a mini ipad and I use only a win 8.1 asus ux31a touch laptop. We both want to watch 1080p videos off the NAS.

Is there a big difference in ease and speed in terms of remote video streaming between a mobile device like the mini-ipad and a win 8.1 laptop like mine?

Thanks.

 

[stevech]

I'm trying to decide whether to put a new DS213 I'm buying in my mom's house or in mine. Which would you recommend?


She uses only a mini ipad and I use only a win 8.1 asus ux31a touch laptop. We both want to watch 1080p videos off the NAS.

Is there a big difference in ease and speed in terms of remote video streaming between a mobile device like the mini-ipad and a win 8.1 laptop like mine?

Thanks.

This is foremost a question of the internet service provider's UPSTREAM speed. Some cable modems (like mine) are restricted to 1Mbps though the downstream is 15-20Mbps. The home with the NAS will be limited by that ISP's uplink speed.

If she has only an iPAD mini, I'd put the NAS at your house. But sharing that over the internet to her is a hassle.

1080p - not realistic. 1080i, possible. iPAD mini's display isn't that many pixels anyway.