Solved Watching videos from both Smb and Ftp has freezes and disconnects

[alex-ks]

Hi everyone.
I have Asus Ax86u and latest Merlin firmware.
I connected usb hard drive and enabled Ftp and Smb on router.
But when I open some video on my drive there are some freezes and even disconnects on both smb and ftp. Any ideas what can be wrong?
Before I had Ac87u router and smb worked fine there, so weird that Ax86u has some issues with that.
Also I noticed that free memory disappears quite quickly when I start watching something from router hard drive.
What I’ve already tried:
1. Switching off Firewall
2. Ftp / ftps options
3. Increased number of connections
4. Increased hard drive spin hibernate to 300sec
4b. Disabled disk hibernate
4c. Changed to usb 2.0
5. Disabled Qos
6. Tried turn on/off one of smb or ftp
7. Rebooting (after reboot i have like 500mb free memory. When starting watching something i see like 30mb free memory left)
Also
Wifi signal is excellent (like 800mb/s)
Hard drive is ntfs.

 

[alex-ks]

Ok, found workaround. I needed to increase buffer size in VLC player on my tv. For some reason it was set to 0. After changing it to 30 sec everything works great.

 

[JGrana]

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