DLNA videos on ZTE MF93D

Bought a unlocked ZTE MF93D to take with me on our vacation. Selected this over the Huawei E5776 since it was available at a local store to very good price.

Have been reeding a lot compering the two and in the end my conclusion was that there are no big difference between them. ZTE you can use MiMo (dual external antenna) in low signal condition but the HUWEI has a bit better internal antenna and max throughput on 4G. But what difference does 150 Mbps for Huawei and 100Mbps for the ZTE really do when you do not intend to stream multiple movies over 4G.

Have been trying to get the dlna to work, but to get the movies to show up in the Video folder has not been easy. Google didn’t have the answer.

No manual saying what limitation there are and support could not help directly, they needed to escalate it.

So after some testing I found that the following works:

• .mp4
• .wmv

Did not work:

• .m4v
• .avi
• .mkv
• .mov
• .divx
• .xvid

So now I have to turn on the converter at home, so that my kids can stream movies on our iPads when we drive the 2000km down to Munich.

In Germany I buy prepaid surf card for the ZTE router and we can all surf without using expensive roaming. With some extra battery pack we can be on the move the whole day.

Vacation here we come!

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