Basic home network question

rubberduck

rubberduck

rubberduck

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I have a home cinema set up in my garage with the devices connected to my home network via a powerline plug and switch. In my garage I have a Kodi box and NAS. The speed I get in terms of transfering or downloading movies etc to the NAS is fine as I can simply leave it for a couple of hours to transfer over. The problems arise when I want to watch a high bitrate movie as despite the NAS and Kodi box being attached to the same switch the data has to go through my main router in my house via the slow powerline connection. To solve this issue would it be as straightforward as adding a second router in my garage such that data can stream between the Kodi box and the NAS without having to go via the slow powerline link? Obviously I still want my NAS visible to my main home network.

Hopefully that makes sense. Any suggestions welcome.
 
Thanks for the replies. Yes you are right in that they are both connected to the same switch. I started a movie streaming from the NAS to the Kodi and then turned the powerline adapter off and the movie continued to stream so yes data is just going via the switch. I still get breakup of high bitrate movies however so assume the problem is because my Kodi box doesn't have gigabit ethernet... The same movie plays fine when put on a flash drive and played via usb.
 
The files are in MKV format and play ok on the KODI box if I put them on a USB 3 flashdrive and plug it in to the kodi box directly. It would seem that the non-gigabit ethernet is the problem. I wonder if a ethernet to USB 3.0 adapter would help or if the only solution is to buy a non-POS kodi box?
 
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