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Why is browsing my network REALLY slow?

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Slick5150

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I have a desktop and a laptop on my home network (both with WinXP). My desktop is plugged directly into a Siemens Speedstream 802.11b wireless router, and then the laptop connects via a Dell Truemobile wireless card. Now, both computers can connect to the internet fine, and can see each other on the network, however, when I try to access files on my desktop from my laptop, if I click on a shared folder, it will hang for about 10-15 minutes before if finally opens the folder up. Once it's open I can click on any of the files in that folder and they will open right away. If I leave it sitting there awhile, if I go to click on a file again, it will repeat the same long wait.

Any thoughts on a solution here?

Thank you
 
from tweakxp.com:
When you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it?s fairly easy to disable this process.
First, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
in the Registry. Below that, there should be a key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}. Just delete this, and after a restart, Windows will no longer check for scheduled tasks - major performance improvement!
Click to expand...

Plus make sure both your PCs have SP1.

Another problem may be differing file systems. If some XP machines are running NTFS and some are running FAT32, you'll encounter slow network file access.

You should also check out this link. It's on network troubleshooting.

I'm not sure any of this relates to your problem, I've never heard of it taking so long to open a shared folder.
 
Here's what I've tried:

- Both computers have SP1 installed
- Both have the same NTFS file system, no problems there
- I tried NetBEUI on both PCs, hasn't helped.
- Both are on same subnet
- Ping between each PC is normal
- I tried disabling WEP on the wireless connection, didn't change anything.

I'm pretty baffled by this to say the least. Could it be something screwy with the router perhaps?

I appreciate the help
 
I tried disabling QoS on both computers, that didn't help.

One thing I noticed is that this problem only exists going on 1 direction. If I'm trying to access the files on my laptop from my desktop, there is no delay in connecting to the shared folders, but if I'm trying to get files from my desktop while on my laptop, the 10 minute delay happens. So, I'm not sure what that means, but the problem definitely only exists while using my laptop.

Any new thoughts? Thanks
 
Did you try deleting that registry entry that tjaisv was talking about. I just did that, and it fixedthe 10-20 second delay I was just having.
 
unbind microsoft networking from TCP/IP and install netbeui

OR

make sure both computers have "enabled netbios over TCP" enabled.

Biggest thing is make sure XP doesn't have any choices to make (like what protocol to use, whether to use netbeui or tcp or netbios over tcp).

Also I think there is a registry tweak to disable searching for PnP devices.

how long does it take to bring up a list of shares if you type "\\computername" in start/run.
 
The third message in the thread gives a link that has a lot of suggestions for this very problem, I don't see any mention of trying any of them...
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Yes, I did try everything in that link (I did mention having tried some of them above). Still no go. Connection from desktop -> laptop works fine, but connection from laptop -> desktop still hangs for 10 minutes or so before connecting.

 
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