Windows XP & LANS slowness

MeJayne · Post by **MeJayne** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 3:20 am

I have had Windows XP Home Edition for a couple of months now and I LOVE it..it hasn't even begun to crash yet. One small problem however. It's very slow browsing/transferring to/from my LAN. The other computers run windows ME and they're fast between each other. It's only when my XP is involved that it's slow. It does get to where it's going, just slowly. Any suggestions on this? I have upgraded my drivers for my nic card, and before I got XP it ran very fast on the same system/nic card.

monty · Post by **monty** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 5:31 am

Browsing 9x clients in 2000 or XP can be slow. To speed things up, map network drives. Just do it at the command prompt:

net use driveletter: \\computer\sharename

Example: net use z: \\server\d

Of course, you could do it the lazy way and right-click on My Computer, Map Network Drive, and do it from there.

Either way, you should immediately notice the difference. Browsing NT, 2000, XP, or Samba 2.2 shares is nice and fast without mapping drives.

MeJayne · Post by **MeJayne** » Wed Jan 23, 2002 4:25 am

Mapping the network drives do work, thanks, although I wish it'd work through network places like it's supposed too

Aww well, such is Microsoft..it can't be perfect or it wouldn't be Microsoft! lol

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jan 23, 2002 6:26 am

Another way is to initially browse network neighborhood, find the computer you wish to get to, drill into it to find it's shares that you want, such as "My Documents", or the C drive, or whatever you shared, and drag a shortcut of that share to your desktop. Next time you need something from "that computer", just open up that shortcut on your desktop.

You have NetBEUI installed on all the computers? TCP/IP unbound from networking services?