DL2100 Accessing files over wifi on Windows 8.1

How's it going folks, just got my small company a DL2100 for all our file sharing needs as well for accessing our stuff over the net and the my cloud features are working fine as advertised~ We have a couple of computers running and accessing the DL2100 over our network, most are fine, but we've found that our Windows 8.1 systems are having issues in both reading/writing into the drives over our wifi network. This is using the admin account to access. Reading folders and files take a long time to load, and moving files will result in an intermittent freeze(Not Responding) and subsequent failure in the task =( Strangely, the Macbooks accessing the drives over wifi, and both Windows 7 and 8.1 machines accessing through ethernet cables have no problems at all! Any ideas?

I do not believe that a soulution is to set a static IP, hack the registry or any other extraodinary procedures. As I mentioned above, my Win7 and Win8 laptops work great with my DL2100. They are both wired into the network, so today I disconnected the ethernet and connected the Win8 using the wireless at both the 2.4G and the 5G bands and both work perfectly with the network and the DL2100. I was able to stream/play videos from it to the Win8. I have no static IPs set for anything, I have Norton Security so no firewall issue, and I have never hacked the registry. I just have a carefully configured Home network with around 30 or so devices connected to it (both wired and wireless) and I have no network issues. In the past I had some issues, and what cleared them up was making sure I had a properly functioning Windows Master Browser and the solution was to have set up a permanent Master Browser from a device that was ALWAYS on. A new router had that capability, and so my router is the MB and has been for a few years.. The DL 2100 can also be designated to be the Master Browser via its Dashboard. I do not have mine as MB because only one Master Browser is needed and mutiple ones can and do cause problems. First step is to know what a Master Browser is, and that can be found easily. The second thing is to find out what device is currently acting as the Master Browser. You can easily find this out with a handy little free program called LANSCAN found here: http://scottiestech.info/2009/02/14/how-to-determine-the-master-browser-in-a-windows-workgroup/ Install it on your Win PCs and notice that the MB can change if a PC is turned off or on. If a PC is acting as the MB, that is likely the problem, so if you have no other way to set a permanent MB, then do so in the NAS. Using the LANSCAN program, determine that your NAS is acting as the MB before proceeding to check things out. Rebooting of PCs and NAS will be necessary. Even if setting up the MB does not solve this problem, it is still a good thing to have a permanent MB in a network. Good luck.

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