Mac and nas connected to router via ethernet

Hi,
I have movies and music stored on my nas which is hooked up to itunes on my mac over wifi. This all works quite nicely but when I want to watch movies the wifi connection just isn't quick enough so the movie doesn't play properly. I have connected the nas directly to my mac and this way it works perfectly, but I want my nas plugged into my router and also my mac plugged into the router so I haven't got to keep plugging and unplugging cable in and out of nas.
I assumed that if both the mac and the nas are plugged into the router then they would be on the same network so then i should be able to access the nas data via the cable rather than the wifi solving the issue however this encounters problems and doesn't enable me to connect to the internet.
Any ideas?

Hi, thanks for coming back to me. I certainly haven't installed any security onto my mac, does it have anything built in that could be blocking it? Regarding the firewall; am I right in saying that this would be built into the router and if so should I be able to adjust it through the admin pages?
Thanks again

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