Pictures load slow on home network

[Salamander]

I have a file with all my photos on my desktop computer. When I try to access them on my laptop via my wireless network and Windows 7 Homegroup, they are very slow to open. Once I have one image open, when I then try to open a second image it goes through the process of opening them all again. Any suggestions?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Did you disable the caching of thumbnails?

To display the thumbnails in Explorer, it has to read EVERY SINGLE FILE in the directory, to decode them, and then create the thumbnail images.

So if you have a lot of images in the directory, it will take a while to load the thumbnails, and take up all of your network bandwidth in the process, slowing down the loading of the photo that you double-clicked on.

Another solution, is to set Explorer to a view mode that doesn't use thumbnails.

 

[Salamander]

They load up fine on the desktop, where the photos are filed and with the thumbnail caching enabled. It's something either with the wireless connection or the Windows 7 homegroup.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Of course they load fine on the desktop they are stored on, it has a direct connection to the HD.

Did you read anything that I wrote?

 

[JackMDS]

OP, you making the issue too private to the task at hand.

Did you measure the Transfer rate of the network with any big file?

Transfer 100MB between the computers, measure the time and compute.

If the rate of transfer via the Wireless is within the acceptable range than do what VLarry suggested.

"Speed" (Bandwidth) expectation of Ethernet Home Networks using Windows - http://www.ezlan.net/net_speed.html

 

[Salamander]

OP, you making the issue too private to the task at hand.

Did you measure the Transfer rate of the network with any big file?

Transfer 100MB between the computers, measure the time and compute.

If the rate of transfer via the Wireless is within the acceptable range than do what VLarry suggested.

"Speed" (Bandwidth) expectation of Ethernet Home Networks using Windows - http://www.ezlan.net/net_speed.html

I'll check out the transfer rate - try it this weekend. Thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Another way to put this is - the connection between the computer and the local HD, is 300MB/sec. The connection between the wireless computer and the desktop, is like 3MB/sec. That's a 100X difference in speed between the two.

 

[Emulex]

disable ipv6 on network adapter
disable flow control on adapter
google net tune options on win7/vista