Networks

General discussion

Gravatar
0 Votes
Locked

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

By Des ·
Any idea why an XP Based Desktop would take a long time to display the shared folders on two other Win Me stations? Problem did not exist when all stations were running on ME.

10 mbps Hub.
XP Station using Netbeui and TCP protocols but not IPX.

This conversation is currently closed to new comments.

Thread display: Collapse - | Expand +

All Comments

gravatar
Collapse -

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

by LEGJ1 In reply to Slow Home network on Wind ...

Interesting. I would turn off Netbeui though for starters. Sorry, I don't know much about XP. I am still on 2000 and will be for some time.

gravatar
Collapse -

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

by Des In reply to Slow Home network on Wind ...

Poster rated this answer

gravatar
Collapse -

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

by james In reply to Slow Home network on Wind ...

I have the same problem in Win 2k when i try to access FAT32 drives.
Basically ure WinXP config probably uses NTFS as the file system. Win ME uses FAT32. I think thats where ure problem is. I would consider upgrading to XP or downgrading back to MEto solve this. Also running defragmenter etc to tidy the filesystem could also help.

gravatar
Collapse -

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

by Des In reply to Slow Home network on Wind ...

This makes sense logically. Thanks for confirming my first suspicion.

gravatar
Collapse -

Slow Home network on Windows XP Pro

by Des In reply to Slow Home network on Wind ...

This question was closed by the author

Back to Networks Forum

Start or search

Related Discussions

Related Forums