Hi,
I've been enjoying Media Center for years and have always had a main stationary computer with all my files serving as a media library for my living room laptop/tv.
This has been working perfectly until I moved to my current location, where I have the following options for connecting the two computers:
- Wireless network that suddenly drops to 5-6 Mbit for no good reason despite hours of tweaking the wireless router
- Wire-based network through the electric grid that ALSO suddenly drops to 5-6 Mbit for no good reason
The net result is that streaming any sort of video will work flawlessly 80% of the time, but then suddenly it will start skipping sound and video, and this last for 10-15 seconds at a time.
I realize this is not a problem with Media Center itself, but are there any settings I can tweak to make the client buffer or pre-read much more at a time to overcome my crappy network?
Both the main computer and laptop are running media center 17, and I have mounted the same drive on the laptop which might be part of the problem?
Edit: To add to this I've also tried without the drive mounted, which seems to trigger streaming, but it's still very choppy.