NAS Questions

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heli

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Hello everybody

Im new to this forum, wish me welcome:)
Sorry for my bad english.

I have this Zyxel NSA 325V2 at my home connected to my Asus RT-AC66U router, and my home comupter is connected to his one again.

I have three questions.

1: I have a tablet samsung android and a samsung s5. I would like to have an app so I can access my NAS anywhere as long as I have internet. AND I would like to have the ability to just STREAM videos from the NAS, so I dont have to download it first. I have seen polkast, owncloud and the zyxcel app, but I dont now how to set it up, and I thing I cant stream from those.

2: I had big problems copy files from my home computer to my NAS, it transfered at a very very low speed. TOday I tried to update my router and now I copy files 10 times faster, around 90 MB/s.
But when I use my laptop computer, to play videos from the NAS over WLAN it lags a bit. Plays for some secounds and stop for one secound again and again.. I play with VLC. Is there any tips that can help here?

3: If I want to connect my laptop to the NAS without being on my home network, how difficult is that?

Thank you for reading my bad english;) sorry about that,
 
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I changed your thread title to make more sense.

Your router has a built in VPN client you can enable and access your network from anywhere. Another member has it implemented, so I'll send him this way to help you out.
 
In order to access your NAS offsite, you will need to setup port forwarding on your Asus router, luckily it's very easy on that model - I have the AC68U and have my NAS accessible over the internet with no issues. You will need to register for a dynamic DNS service, which gives you a hostname that you use to access your NAS, as most likely you have a dynamic IP that can change. I would recommend DynDNS. You then enter this information into the DDNS configuration page on your router, and this will keep your dynamic IP updated with the hostname.

You then need to get an app for your Android that can allow remote file access, either via SMB, FTP, etc., depending on what your NAS supports. I prefer Solid Explorer. For streaming, you'd need to setup an application on your NAS. I'm not familiar with your model, but I have a Synology NAS and they have built-in video and audio streaming programs that I can also download to my phone, or access via the website - I would see if your NAS manufacturer has anything similar.

For your laptop and lag, it sounds like a wireless problem. Do you know what speeds your laptop is getting over wireless? If you have an older A/B/G card, that's most likely your issue. If you have an N/AC wireless card, then that should be more than enough assuming you are close enough to your router. As far as connecting it to your NAS, you can use the DDNS hostname you created above, and use that to either map a network drive, or create an FTP shortcut.
 
Sounds like you hace controll of this Geoff.
Could you please write a step by step instruction or is it
to complicated?
I want my NAS on the big internet!;)


Is it so easy, fill this out and port foreward a port on the internet "central"
THen it should work?
 
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Port forwarding is easy, you just need to know what ports you need to forward and the IP of your NAS.

I'm not familiar with Zyxel, but if you can get the services setup we can help you forward those ports.
 
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