Usb Hard Drive

[matthew johnson]

I have a asus RT-AC68R. And a 3.0 usb hard drive. I was wondering if i connect it to the router for media server purposes will it effect performance? The reason i'm asking is i have three boys and a wife that all connect wirelessly and multiple xboxes and ps4 and ps3 that are connected. Sometimes all at once. Will it effect internet performance of any of that?

 

[L&LD]

More than likely, yes. At least at default settings.

And especially when it is being accessed and you have a fast (close to a GB) ISP connection.

 

[evh909]

what settings then do you recommend to mitigate performance issues? i stream media from a usb 3.0 2gb drive to a samsung tv and more often than not it gets disconnected, doesnt seem to matter what else is going on. I do have qos enabled with media as the priority.

 

[matthew johnson]

I have Comcast 110 down 10 up. It normally is really good for all the stuff we throw at it. So if I don't even use it that much it will effect performance?

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[NeoDragon]

What are you using as a Media Server? The default Minidlna that comes with the router?
I had problems before with my RT-56U, default minidlna and a samsung tv too, getting disconnected from the media server randomly.
I fixed this problem by using Minidlna from the Entware pkg instead of the default one and change settings from "notify_interval=895" to "set notify_interval=90000"

As far as perfomance goes, you should check out your cpu/ram usage while the router is under heavy load from all the devices connected, but your router should be able to manage all of this.

 

[sfx2000]

I have a asus RT-AC68R. And a 3.0 usb hard drive. I was wondering if i connect it to the router for media server purposes will it effect performance? The reason i'm asking is i have three boys and a wife that all connect wirelessly and multiple xboxes and ps4 and ps3 that are connected. Sometimes all at once. Will it effect internet performance of any of that?

It can... for a couple of reasons...

1) USB3.0 and 802.11 b/g/n in 2.4GHz have known interference issues that can affect clients attaching to the AP - this isn't ASUS specific, it's a USB3.0 design issue - high quality cables can help perhaps... so the PS3/PS4/XBoxes may be impacted as they're 2.4GHz primarily.

2) While the Router/AP is trying to serve up files over the USB interface, that's less CPU horsepower available to route all the packets, do the firewall stuff, etc... not a big impact, but it's there...

 

[evh909]

What are you using as a Media Server? The default Minidlna that comes with the router?
I had problems before with my RT-56U, default minidlna and a samsung tv too, getting disconnected from the media server randomly.
I fixed this problem by using Minidlna from the Entware pkg instead of the default one and change settings from "notify_interval=895" to "set notify_interval=90000"

As far as perfomance goes, you should check out your cpu/ram usage while the router is under heavy load from all the devices connected, but your router should be able to manage all of this.

Yes, the minidlna with the router. I actually think I solved the problem by changing some other settings on the router, unfortunately Im not mr patient and did them all at once rather than seeing which one actually worked since it was a random time when it would disconnect. What I think did it was enabling igmp snooping (i also upped the key rotational interval as well). I used the rickys guide for settings, however I found that disabling the beamforming lowered performance, and since my apple devices dont seem to be affected by it, I left them enabled.