Joining the HomeGroup

[CrippsCorner]

wow really? I never have problems with my homegroup on my Surface except once in awhile it'll take a along time to connect to it in the beginning...but when streaming movies to my Surface it works flawlessly.

At first I was able to stream music perfectly, but it gradually got worse and worse (any ideas why!?) so in the end I gave up and bought myself an SDXC card for all my media. It's a bit of a shame as my Windows 7 desktop PC is basically redundant now. Might set it up for mum somewhere to stop using my Surface!

 

[beman39]

whats worse and worse? also it can be many factors from the router to the host computer to maybe the Surface itself? what I would recommend is redoing the homegroup and see if it fixes it

 

[TeknoBlast]

I really need to learn how to set up a NAS with raid...!!!!

It's actually easy to set up. The part that's a huge headache is transferring all the data you have your computer to the NAS. That took me a couple of days to do. Even though Ethernet is fast, that's GBs GBs of data. So I had to transfer everything in portions.

 

[geisslingen]

Found the problem by searching online, the Windows 7 registry key that needed to be modified to allow IPV6 for the HomeGroup creation. Brilliant.

Here is the link if someone needs it: Homegroup - IPv6 absolutely required? - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

[CrippsCorner]

whats worse and worse? also it can be many factors from the router to the host computer to maybe the Surface itself? what I would recommend is redoing the homegroup and see if it fixes it

What I mean by worse and worse regarding my music playback was it would stutter for a second every couple of hours... then it was every hour... then every 5 minutes... and eventually every minute or so. Became unbearable.

Tried re-doing the HomeGroup, multiple times

 

[beman39]

kayzee, does it do that when you connect say a laptop to your homegroup? or is it just the Surface?

 

[CrippsCorner]

I literally only have two computers on it... one that basically acts as a server for my Surface. I could try doing it the other way around I guess, and see if I get the same results.