And did that… and the problem persists. Even playing tiny .mp4 video files (<200MB)
http://paste.osmc.tv/icuwenuhal
… again, what I notice is CSSettingsManager
and again will mention, this is a fairly new issue, maybe since last update.
… but the good news is – as it’s not a network problem –
I don’t have to figure out what that means, let alone how to do that. 
done, thanks for the tips. (have obv. had that this xmbc thing quite a while.)