Plex on NETGEAR Nighthawk (R7800) - AC2600

[mrober445]

If i were to connect a 3.5 4tb HDD to one of the USB ports would Plex work? And if so, will it be smooth or at least usable. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[kirashi]

4 minutes ago, cuntydumplin445 said:

If i were to connect a 3.5 4tb HDD to one of the USB ports would Plex work? And if so, will it be smooth or at least usable. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Um, so technically I bet you that someone somewhere has compiled a version of Plex that runs on Linux based routers running custom firmware, however, the CPUs in routers are usually not designed to encode video, so I highly recommend not using a router for more than setting up a very simple file share / BitTorrent service.

[mrober445]

Thanks, what could be some alternatives to using a router?

[mrober445]

5 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Um, so technically I bet you that someone somewhere has compiled a version of Plex that runs on Linux based routers running custom firmware, however, the CPUs in routers are usually not designed to encode video, so I highly recommend not using a router for more than setting up a very simple file share / BitTorrent service.

Thanks, what could be some alternatives to using a router?

[kirashi]

27 minutes ago, cuntydumplin445 said:

Thanks, what could be some alternatives to using a router?

Building a PC to act as a server, using an ultra small form factor PC as a server, or buying something premade like a Synology NAS box. I chose to do the 3rd option because I'm lazy, even though I could full well build a server or utilize existing hardware.

[Master Disaster]

I'm running a Nightwawk R8000 and the USB ports SUCK. I tried connecting a desktop and powered USB 3.0 HDD to the USB 3.0 port on the router and the max transfer speed I was able to get over my network was around 30MBps. The EXACT same drive connected to my Synology does 100MBps.

 

Also don't ever install DD-WRT on to it either, due to a bug with Broadcoms WiFi driver installing DD-WRT onto any of the Nighthawk routers results in the 5G WiFi either running SUPER slow, having a really low signal strength and/or not working at all.

[NelizMastr]

A router is not suitable to do anything but route traffic. Especially not a consumer grade unit like the nighthawk. The CPU on most routers is usually too weak to even route a lot of clients properly, let alone serve as a media server.

 

Plex is best run from a computer, server or NAS that supports it and has sufficient CPU power or GPU transcoding support.

[mrober445]

Thanks for all of the help, I really appreciate it.