I am running a Win NT 4.0 server with 3 workstations. I frequently run an internet sharing program for the workstations. The internet sharing is still fast but the icons in Network Neighborhood take forever to show up and once they do it takes as long to bring up the drive on the workstation. My NIC cards are Netgear FA310TX 10/100 with an Intel 8 Port 10/100 Auto sensing port hub. I have setup the network so many times due to issues when clicking on a workstation in network neighborhood myhair is turning green. After the original setup which includes a format and complete reinstalation of all operating systems and nic cards with all the latest drivers the network works fine. Very fast access speeds and fast file transfers and also fast internet sharing. Eventually when I click on a workstation in Network neighborhood it just sits there trying to find the workstation. It does finally find the workstation but it is very slow. What gives. Why does it work initially and then slow to a crawl. I have pinged the workstations and this is the result. (1) Workstation = Ping Statistics for 192.168.0.3. Round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum=oms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = oms. (2) Workstation = Ping Statistics for 192.168.0.2 Round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum=1ms, Maximum=1ms, Average=1ms. I would certainly appreciate any help in stabilyzing my system so that I may use my network as it is suppose to work. I try rebooting the server and workstations but to no avail. Still very slow. I have run virus programs including F-Prot and Mcafee and their are no viruses. Again this rebuild is only a few days old. By the way the server IP address is 192.168.0.1 with the subnet being 255.255.255.0.
Please help.
Thanks
Mike R. Davis
