I recently acquired a second hand DS216j with 6TB (SHR1 so only 3TB is usable). I moved all my Google Photos images and videos onto it, but now when I access it through QuickConnect it loads them really slow, the videos are constantly buffering and when they load they have a messed up framerate (really jittery). I have a 500 fibre connection and the station is connected to the router through an ethernet cable. Any idea how I could possibly fix this? Thanks

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    1 year ago

    Afaik the J series is known to have bad performance when it comes to processing media, like creating thumbnails or transcoding videos. That’s why they added the Play series at some point, as an affordable option with ok media support.

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      This one guy on reddit said:

      It definitely cannot be the NAS. The NAS does not do any sort of transcoding when you play a video using the Synology Photos App. Try a lower res/bitrate video, if that plays fine, then your internet upload speed is the problem.

      Is there anything to it? Is it possible that the Play series is for the Plex functionality?

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        There’s something to that claim. Sending uncompressed (i.e. not transcoded) video content over the internet can easily saturate your internet link.
        Do you have CIFS/Samba, in other words Windows Network Explorer access to the files on the NAS via your local network? If so try directly opening a video and look at the network dashboard of the NAS and/or your computers task manager (performance -> ethernet tab) to see to what mbit bandwidth the not transcoded stream amounts too.
        Consider that the exact same mbit bandwidth will be needed using Synology QuickConnect to view media from outside of your local network.

        If you want to work around all that you would probably have to look into something that buffers/transcodes your media, something like Jellyfin/Plex or the likes. For that you’d have to look into running Docker on the NAS but that’ll plunge you into self-hosting very deep very fast and may be beyond your initial comfort zone.

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    500 fibre connection means it is a 500mbit internet uplink?
    Have you checked whether the ethernet cable you’re connecing the DS216j to your router is a “Cat5e” cable. If it is a “Cat5” you would be limiting and thus bottlenecking your bandwidth to 100mbit max.

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    I think it might be because I’m running DSM 7 and it’s suggested to have 1gb of RAM when DS216j have 512mb. I think I will try to downgrade to DSM 6

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    You say you’re using QuickConnect, do you know if you’re getting a direct connection to your NAS or one through QuickConnect relay service? Maybe try opening the required ports and checking again.

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        “Configure port forwarding” covers pretty much all of the steps. I don’t think that it would be any less secure than quickconnect through a relay, but if security is a priority, then look into setting up a VPN to your network instead.

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                Not necessarily, anytime it was on it would update the ddns service with the correct IP address. As far as I’m aware, your dynamic IP doesn’t change too frequently. There would be some downtime if your ISP assigned you a new dynamic IP while the machine was powered down but it would correct itself as soon as the machine came online again.

                I’m not an expert but I think this is accurate.

                Edit: Does Synology have a ddns app? Or is it possible to install a ddns service via the command line? It would be cool if the NAS could send the update!