PC File sharing over my own wireless network

[Thomas Karlmann]

The OP wanted some easy network browsing like the old days. That is not as easy nor efficient in today's Windows networks.

OP here. Now that my PCs can talk to each other we can one more descriptive term -- slow. I'm running my home network on wireless "G" right now -- and am about to transition to wireless "N". How much PC-to-PC speed improvement should I expect?

Presently, using "G", I'm getting about 22 minutes to transfer 1G-bytes of data over my network. What do you guys get?

 

[Bob Collette]

On my wireless N network (300Mbps), I typically get approximately 10MB/s transfer rate when transferring files between my desktop & laptop computer (desktop is wired, laptop is wireless N). With a wireless G network, you'll be lucky to get 3MB/s transfer rate.

 

[photosen]

Follow this .

The important bit besides having the same workgroup and establishing the connection as Work is going into the Network and Sharing Center, Change advanced sharing settings, and making sure it is actually discovering, sharing and not asking for passwords if you don't want to write them each time...

 

[WilbaW]

I have the opposite problem. I have three Win7 machines, all in the same workgroup, same settings (file and print sharing... password protected sharing off... Windows firewall allowing it... checked everything in every tutorial I can find).

My two machines have identical accounts for me (same username, same password) and they share fine. The third machine (hers) doesn't have that user account but can still see my User on both of the other two, even though they are set up to with no sharing on the User files (padlock, share with Nobody, only me as the Owner). I can't find a way to stop my User showing up on her machine. It works fine the other way with her account setup with all the same settings stopping me from viewing her User files.

And no matter what I do I can't set up a Homegroup. I can create one on either of two machines but no-one else can join. Very frustrating!

 

[Thomas Karlmann]

After all this frustrating configuring, I went to copy a directory of files, and after a while the receiving PC started saying that the source files were not there or not available -- this is WRONG. I'm back to sneaker-netting using DVDs. Do you guys have these problems or does everything work perfectly? (I was copying a directory of ~10G of data.)

 

[bullet1]

If two PCs are close, connect them with ethernet cables. I never use wireless network for file backup. It is OK for downloading stuff from the web but I woundn't download a large file either.

My computers are all connected with CAT6 ethernet cables. I frequently transfer a few hundread GB (gigabytes) of data across (synching AIFF music libraries, photos and video files) with no issues.

 

[digitalshooter]

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