Starting about 2-3 weeks ago I have been unable to stream anything but redbook (16/44) files from my Synology NAS to my music streamers. I am in the hirez audio industry and do a lot of listening (for articles, reviews, etc) to high resolution music files (PCM up to 24/384k, DSD up to DSD256 multichannel) and up until a couple weeks ago have had NO issues. However, now it seems I can't barely stream cd-quality without there being numerous buffering/pauses. When I use local USB drives (instead of NAS) all is well. I have a call into Synology but suspect my router/gateway.
I have isolated everything I can, and it seems it's likely the router in the NVG589. Why? The 589 has been rebooting almost daily, I have had at least 3 IP conflict messages on either my home office desktop or my wife's laptop, yet looking at my IP list all seem unique, and I've never had these messages before. ATT customer support says testing lines are fine...which has little to do with my LAN of course. I've removed any possible candidates of downstream noisy faulty connectors/cards, etc (which don;t seem to be an issue). When testing audio I even unplug the Uverse TVs/DVR from the router. It's all that's left, now that I've removed everything else from my network except a streamer or two (Rendu, Playpoint) and the NAS (and the streamers have been isolated too). There's a damn kink in this hose somewhere, and I am thinking it might be the router in the 589.
The only thing I have done to the gateway in the past 3 weeks is try and wifi handshake with one of the streamers I am testing/evaluating. It uses a WPS button approach, and I never got it to succeed. But other than that, nothing here that I am discussing is dealing with wifi. These pauses/buffering issues are via wired CAT6A, a tried and true copper highway up until 3 weeks ago.
So...is there anything I can check in the diagnostics to test this? There seems to be no reported drops or errors (transmit or received) in the 589 web page report, but know of nothing else to check.
Thanks
Ted
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