I have Windows 7 installed on 2 computers. The Homegroup connection works fine, however, it is so slow that it is useless. Computer 1 is connected to the router by both a cable and wireless. Computer 2 is connected to the router by wireless (54kb). Internet connection on both computers is fine. The problem is with the computer to computer connection. Using Vista the two computers communicated on an acceptable speed,

Hi, Please refer to the following steps to troubleshoot the issue. 1. Temporarily turn off firewall on each machine and router (if it has). 2. Perform a Clean Boot on each machine and transfer data again between the two machines to check whether the performance is quicker. 3. Upgrade the NICs driver and router firmware. 4. Please use network cable instead of wireless on each machine and connect to the router for a test. Thanks, Novak

also same problem! Win7 - Win7 copying a 700MB video from Homegroup share. Can get up to 1MB/s, but usually less across G wireless. Has anyone tried wireless file copy speed across homegroup? This is horribly slow!

same problem here also. got main pc wired to router and laptop is connected over wireless. both machines can see eachothers public libraries, but transferring files between machines is so slow it's unusable!

Same Problem on my site, all is up to date and normal network shares work much faster. Won't use it again.

I am having the same issue. I just bought a new ASUS Wireless G Router. I get 54 Mbps for WiFi. Homegroup transfer speed tops out at 1mbs. How is Homegroup supposed to be useful at this speed?Has anyone found a fix for this issue?I am considering giving up and simply making my own network manually.

Wow, there really is no fix for this?

Disable homegroup and your fine. I had the EXACT problem, when trying to transfer files from my server (hard lined) to my laptops (wireless N) with homegroup enabled it would go no faster than 1mbps...sometimes as SLOW as 300BYTES a SEC! The second I left the homegroup, my transfer speeds bumped up to 5-10mbps (still slow for wireless N but MUCH more acceptable). Don't know how or why homegroup screws everything up but, no offense to Novak Wu but that stuff doesn't help at all. I've tried all of it. 3 different routers, 4 different nic cards, and 3 different wireless cards and no firewalls and it never changed, not until I disabled homegroup. As long as your router is still giving you DHCP, and you have file sharing enabled on your PC's leaving the homegroup causes no extra hasle. I'm running Server 2k8 on my media server so it never had homegroup anyways. But yea if you just simply abandon this homegroup stuff your wireless transfer speeds will return to normal. They did for me at least =)

Disable homegroup and your fine. I had the EXACT problem, when trying to transfer files from my server (hard lined) to my laptops (wireless N) with homegroup enabled it would go no faster than 1mbps...sometimes as SLOW as 300BYTES a SEC! The second I left the homegroup, my transfer speeds bumped up to 5-10mbps (still slow for wireless N but MUCH more acceptable). Don't know how or why homegroup screws everything up but, no offense to Novak Wu but that stuff doesn't help at all. I've tried all of it. 3 different routers, 4 different nic cards, and 3 different wireless cards and no firewalls and it never changed, not until I disabled homegroup. Upon further research it seems to be a possibility that Homegroup is written for IPv6 where as most home users and routers are still on IPv4 and this could be causing the problem. I have no been able to confirm it however since I don't have an ipv6 easily capable router on hand to confirm it with =P. As long as your router is still giving you DHCP, and you have file sharing enabled on your PC's leaving the homegroup causes no extra hasle. I'm running Server 2k8 on my media server so it never had homegroup anyways. But yea if you just simply abandon this homegroup stuff your wireless transfer speeds will return to normal. They did for me at least =)

Dragon6687, I have encountered the same problem but both my computers are running windows 7. My desktop is running windows 7 ultimate and my laptop is running windows 7 home premium. Homegroup is the only way that i know to connect the computers to transfer data between the two. Say a movie or music or anything. I want to set it up to basically make my laptop a image of my desktop when it comes to music and what not. I hate updating my itunes libraries. But the problem is that i am getting the 1.3mb - ish transfer rates. How else would i network my computers with out homegroup? Thanks for your time.