In order to be able to stream my local media which is stored on couple of pen drives, I have attached the pen drives to my ASUS RT AC68 Router which is actually TMobile Cellspot router with Tmobile firmware. I have no intention to flash this router with any ASUS or any custom firmware. I am ok with how it is and it all works fine.
Now this router has 2 USB Ports, one USB 3.0 and one 2.0 and I am using one pen drive in each of them. On my iPad / Android phone tablet etc, I use nPlayer to watch local videos and even for local streaming. In the app, this router shows in 2 modes...
Both enable me to stream videos from the pen drives over wifi but is there any of these which is better than other? Does it matter? In the SMB/CIFS, it shows me contents of both the pen drives together and directly shows me the video folders which is great and in Upnp/DLNA, I have to navigate as If I am in Windows Explorer navigating each pen drive separately.
Now this router has 2 USB Ports, one USB 3.0 and one 2.0 and I am using one pen drive in each of them. On my iPad / Android phone tablet etc, I use nPlayer to watch local videos and even for local streaming. In the app, this router shows in 2 modes...
- SMB/CIFS
- Upnp/DLNA
Both enable me to stream videos from the pen drives over wifi but is there any of these which is better than other? Does it matter? In the SMB/CIFS, it shows me contents of both the pen drives together and directly shows me the video folders which is great and in Upnp/DLNA, I have to navigate as If I am in Windows Explorer navigating each pen drive separately.
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