NAS or Network problem ?

[Attu90]

Im having a few problems when playing movies from my NAS drive, my network is connected up as follows.

Upstairs spare bedroom (man cave) has my main computer with Virgin media Super hub, the Super hub has my computer, sons room and Ethernet cat 5e cable to living room.

In the Living room I have a Netgear GS108 gigabit switch which has connected to it TV, PS3, Xbox 360, Bluray player, WDTV Live and a Synology DS210J.

As its set up at the moment playing a film on the WDTV Live from the NAS drive some high bit rate films pause and have to buffer, if I move the NAS drive upstairs and connect it to the Super Hub the same films play fine even though the NAS drive is now about 15 meters cable length further away than it would be connected to the Netgear switch.

Anyone got any idea why im having this problem, I though having the NAS drive close to the WDTV Live (on the same switch) would work better than having the NAS drive in a different room with an extra 15m or cable ?

 

[Attu90]

Thanks for the replies guys, Ill have a look to see if the NAS is keeping its gigabit connection, ive even tried swapping ports of the GS108 in a vain hope it may solve the problem ...but it didn't.

Yep I could leave it connected to the Superhub in my "man cave" all the time but would rather it be in the living room with all of my AV gear and I cant for the life of me see why it shouldn't work connected directly to the GS108.

 

[Attu90]

If I understand rightly connecting the nas to the superhub resolves the problem?

Yes, if I connect it to the superhub the problem goes away, ie ...NAS-> GS108-> WDTV causes the problem, .......NAS-> Superhub -> 15m cable-> GS108-> WDTV Live no problem at all.

You would think the problem would be the other way round with the extra cable length coming into play, I have an old Linksys router I could use as a switch, I think ill try it in place if the GS108 to see if I still get the problem.

 

[Attu90]

OK, ive just tried a netgear FS108 (10/100) I have and that works fine,cant understand why I have the problem with the GS108 (gigabit)