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Thanks for the replies. You are both reporting comparable speeds (`100) so that is good to know. My primary use is my iMac which is showing download speeds that peak at 200+ but steadily decline to below 100 during the measuring period. I have a second media player (also an XPL 3000) connected by ethernet with similar speed issues, and I also connect phones, laptop, wirelessly through an independent router.  

I have connected my media player by ethernet (cat 6) directly from the suppliers modem/router. My internet plan calls for `150 mbps download but I find that the best download speed with the xpl 3000 that I can achieve is between 20 - 30, which is not bad but not great, and I do experience frequent buffering.  I am trying to determine where the hangup might be. Is the  xpl 3000 capable of handling delivering greater download speeds? I am not sure what the specifications of the xpl 3000 mean.

I will look at it more closely, thanks.  When I have used a USB in conjunction with a media box, it was strictly to store a downloaded movie. (Never tried to play the video from my media box.)

 If I were to move apps from the device to the USB, will this affect the functionality of the media box (ie launching the apps)?

I have not recorded anything to date but I have downloaded several apps, and I am assuming that this is the issue. I have almost consumed all the storage, so I am hoping that offloading apps to a USB will improve things. 

The storage on my device is almost completely used. I would like to know if some content can be moved to a USB or SD? If so, what content can be moved, and how is this done?