2015-06-06, 07:41
There is probably an easier way to handle this so I am open to suggestions. I picked up an Amazon Fire TV stick thinking it would be quick to setup, and have run into an issues that is over my head. Short version:
- I installed Kodi on the Amazon Fire stick
- Kodi connects to my SMB share from my server. Bitrate is too high for 54 Mbps network connection and hangs up.
- I attempt to setup an access point, only to realize a secondary router as an access point is limited to WEP and 54 Mbps (I assume this is not a limitation of all, but the N300 I had on hand has this limit)
- I setup the N300 as a secondary router, but can no longer access the SMB share.
- I spent a bunch of time trying to setup a different type of share or connect the SMB to the new subnet with no progress made.
Suggestions on how to make this work with my current hardware? Access points will need to be involved in my household as the area is too spread out, so a better single source router is not an option.
- I installed Kodi on the Amazon Fire stick
- Kodi connects to my SMB share from my server. Bitrate is too high for 54 Mbps network connection and hangs up.
- I attempt to setup an access point, only to realize a secondary router as an access point is limited to WEP and 54 Mbps (I assume this is not a limitation of all, but the N300 I had on hand has this limit)
- I setup the N300 as a secondary router, but can no longer access the SMB share.
- I spent a bunch of time trying to setup a different type of share or connect the SMB to the new subnet with no progress made.
Suggestions on how to make this work with my current hardware? Access points will need to be involved in my household as the area is too spread out, so a better single source router is not an option.