Thanks demonrik. I tested the files as you suggested and they are much more watchable on the pc with VLC. I believe you may be right about the bonding. The router is the GT AC5300 with 2 ports dedicated to bonding and set to source bonding (whatever that means as I cant find much detail about it) an...

Hi, Hoping for some suggestions. Recently got the Synology DS1520+ which has 4 cores, 8gb ram, 5 4tb seagate ironwolf drives in raid 5, and a 256gb m2 drive as cache, and have 2 of the 4 available nics bonded for a 2gb connection to my lan. Installed the synology spk and all worked fine, or so I tho...