4K streaming in the house, buffer issues

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Hi all, perhaps a silly question but I want to sure about the kit I will need (if any) to ensure I have a buffer free streaming experience.

I currently have:
Synology DS918+
Cat 8 cable running from NAS to router
Router is a BT Home Hub 5

When I try to stream a 4K film it tends to lag and buffer after a few seconds. Standard definition 1080p stuff is fine which leads me to think it's the router? I need to invest in a good one I guess as it's pretty old and I didn't have the need to change it at all but for 4K content I guess I need to?

Any advice on this would be great :)

Btw I know cat 8 cable is overkill but it was £1 more than a cat 6 :)

Thanks in advance
 
Sorry guys, so after checking all my kit again I realized the obvious. My router which I mentioned was pretty old only supports up to 802.11n which isn't quick enough based on what I read to support 4K streaming. I've seen one that supports 802.11ac and 802.11ax.

Sorry for the vague detail but @Donny84 you got me thinking from your post, appreciate it.

To answer the above:
The NAS isn't doing a lot no transcoding is taking place. CPU running less than 10%. Movie is 50mbps bit rate, H265.

Don't get the toy NAS comment tbh, I don't need a super duper whopper NAS. I think £500 for a general home use NAS is enough.
 
bremen1874 said:
If it was only £1 more then the Cat6 was vastly overpriced or the Cat8 was suspiciously cheap. There's a lot of cheap high category cables on Amazon and similar market places that I wouldn't touch with a bargepole. A nice vanilla Cat5e or Cat6 cable from a trusted supplier is a better bet.

If you're streaming from the NAS the router won't be doing any routing. Even the switch in a HH5 is more than capable of shifting the data required for 4K streaming.
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I say £1 but actually it wasn't :) it was £3 more for 1m cable. I probably paid too much for it but it feels like a quality cable.
 
WJA96 said:
The DS918+ is a decent NAS, well capable of transcoding a single H265 file. Synology market it as a transcoding NAS. Unless it’s running the base spec 2Gb RAM, I doubt that’s the problem.

I think it’s much more likely that the TV is connected at 2.4GHz and there are horrid Chinese IoT devices lurking on the network that are slowing it down.
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Bang on the money there, it's running on 2.5Ghz. The NAS is packing 4GB RAM. Based on everyone's suggestion I wired it up to my TV (Sony XE93) and it worked flawlessly no buffering. This is cable from router to NAS, then NAS to TV.
 
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