Question How to play media from USB connected to 'slave' router?

[satz24]

Hi all
weird situation I have here, and hope someone can please help.

The main problem I have is trying to use this app called Musiccast (Yamaha) to stream flac music from my network hard drive. I would like it to show folders and subfolders (like it used to when connected to my ASUS RTAC68U). However, now that I have moved house the new modem/router provided by the ISP seems to be causing the Musiccast app to only show Artist, Genre, etc which makes it impossible to find all my subfolder albums.

However, when I navigate to the same drive on a Windows PC, the folder structure shows.

The new router (Technicolor TG789) provided by my ISP, only has options to select or deselect File Server and DLNA. I've tried all combinations.

I tried the new router as bridged, to my ASUS, but then the VOIP phone didn't work!

So is there a way of perhaps setting up my old ASUS router as a slave to the new router, plugging in the USB drive into the ASUS, and be able to access the music on there? And would that then produce the folder/subfolder structure that it used to when it was my primary router?

Thank you in advance
cheers

 

[AllanGH]

You can connect the WAN port of your ASUS router to one of the LAN ports of your new router, and use it as you did before.

I have done this several times. Just change your LAN-facing DHCP pool (on the new router) to something like a 10-dot subnet, before dong this, and things will be fine. You'll end-up with a 192.168-subnet on the LAN-facing side of the ASUS router, if you leave the configuration settings alone (provided that this is how it was originally configured).

 

[Alabalcho]

I'd try setting your Asus as an AP (disable DHCP, connect LAN-LAN), and connecting your Yamaha directly to it (wired or wireless).

 

[satz24]

Hi, and thank you both for your replies
If I try the second option above (Using ASUS as an AP), I would have a different SSID to the primary router I guess?
Then I would connect the Yamaha app to this secondary WiFi?

But how would I 'see' the HDD from other devices connected to my existing network? Would I also need to connect these existing devices to the 'new' secondary SSID, or could they still see the HDD somehow?

thanks again

 

[satz24]

It seemed to work for a little while, and then I couldn't access the wifi on the old router any more. Also, couldn't actually log into the old router. Despite using a cable from PC directly into one of the LAN sockets on the router, and typing in the LAN IP add I manually typed in...

While it did work for a short while, I was able to log in my Yamaha app to the old router's wifi signal and was getting the correct folder/subfolder structure

Close, but I can't work out why it's not staying working...

 

[Alabalcho]

If you desperately need your ISP router' WiFi to be available, assign both on different SSIDs.