I bought a Western Digital MyPassport Wireless Pro (4T) from Amazon. It is a NAS device (network attached storage) meaning it does not have to connect directly to a computer but connects to a network and all other devices on that network can access it, it also broadcasts its own LAN. I’ve ripped all of our DVD’s onto it and loaded PLEX media server on to it. This gives me a portable media server that I use at home and on the road. The TV in the 5th is not a “smart TV” (it has no networking abilities) so I’ve connected a ROKU stick to it and loaded a PLEX client to it.
In the 5th I usually set up a LAN that everything connects to (phones, computers and TVs-via Roku) and play the vids on the WD. If the CG WiFi works I connect to that and all the devices can hit the Internet too. If I don’t bother with my local LAN the WD disc has its own which I can use via the ROKU and play my vids.
It was a bit “fiddley” at first but I’ve pretty much have my arms around it now and it works pretty smoothly. Currently I have a little more than 700 video files (a mix of movies and TV series) and use about 25% of the WD’s storage.
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