Buffering issues from local NAS drive

[Vittorrio]

Hi all.
I had to replace my D Link NAS with a Qnap and I have had nothing but issues.
First off, when trying to tell the droidbox where my movies etc are, it takes about 5 minutes after pressing 'browse' to move on to the next bit. After waiting a further 20 minutes with 'working' flashing at me I gave up. I ended up using NFS instead of SMB and manually inputting my share locations. But now I am getting 'buffering' every 5 minutes, even on 720p videos. I'm running cat 6 Ethernet and all other devices have gigabit ports.
Has anyone else had issues connecting a Qnap to their droidbox? Everything seems to work just fine on my dlink except that the dlink died.
Is there any more information I can provide you in to help me get this sorted?
Networking is not my thing and it's painful to admit, but I'm lost and really could use some help.
Thanks

 

[Vittorrio]

Panic over! I was doing everything right. I installed Kodi onto my computer and tried the same thing and everything went without a hitch (SMB). It turns out the Droidbox was causing mischief!

I completely reset the Droidbox and started from scratch. Everything is working ok now and it's scraping the files as I type. Hopefully this will help someone else in the same situation.
Lesson learned - my Droidbox is a wee bitch!

 

[Vittorrio]

Scratch that. Buffering local files still a major issue. Really starting to hate this droidbox now

 

[Vittorrio]

Well, it's been decided. Time to go shopping for a different box. This Droidbox has me at my wits end. I really should have paid closer attention to the reviews on Amazon where I bought it from.
Buffering issues, the OTA Updater throws up an error, had to reset the box twice in the little time that I've had it.... the list goes on.

 

[Vittorrio]

Droidbox sent back this morning. Not worth the hassle. Hope everyone has better luck than I did. Maybe I just got a dodgy box.
Cheerio peeps!