Hi Ken
It largely depends on how you'll be using the Oppo

Your RipNAS is likely DLNA Compliant (as are more NAS's these days).......and thus this would be termed Streaming, as that is essentially what DLNA is about.........the Oppo is DLNA Compliant as well........in this scenario, your DLNA NAS will act as the Server and your Client will be the Oppo "app" which plays the file as it receives it

It might be better to ask others here who use the Oppo in such a scenario, about speeds and delays etc........but I wouldn't have thought that there would be any issue with the relatively small music files across a home network

Home Network speeds should be capable of between 11Mbps and 1,000Mbps (Gigabit) depending on Wired versus Wireless and what wireless protools are used etc.

Summary: You shouldn't see any problems on a home network

Now trying to do the same across the Internet, with Lossless Music Files across Port Forwarding Routers and Slow Upload Speeds is a completely different issue smile


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