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Sharing HDD via Wifi - Questions
I would like to share my desktop HDD video files to my Laptop via Wifi in my house. Both my computers are windows 10 and I am the only user in my house. Also, am on 2.4Ghz band with "N" router but upgrading to ".ac" in few days. Apart from the below questions, will I get better speeds if I buy a new router with builtin usb 2.0 port and use that instead ?
Questions am having:
1] I had to disable password to see files while sharing, but when enabled its asking me for userid and password on my laptop. Now I am using Local account with no password set - Any idea what I have to enter in user/pass ?
2] Movies are playing good on my laptop, but getting pixelated with grey screen shades every few moments and the file sizes are 10GB. What can the cause ? I am on 5MB internet line but am sure that is irrelevant.
3] Transfer - I am only getting 7 MB/s while copying files over the network
4] What is the difference between creating homegroup Vs directly placing an folder/drive in sharing mode.
5] How to know how many people are connected if I enable sharing
6] Permissions - I had to manually set it to "everyone" in order to access my drive, but I really just want to add permission for my laptop and nothing else... how to appropriately configure it. On everyone, I think its a huge security issue.