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| Thread ID: 41031 | 2003-12-27 23:00:00 | Network slows windows? | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | Press F1 |
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| 203503 | 2003-12-27 23:00:00 | I have just setup and installed my system, it is a good one, xp2600+ barton, 1gb 2700 ram, ati radeon 9600 pro, 160gb hdd and runs games and everything sweet. Anyway, when running normally, windows loads insantly and things run fast and great, thanks to the 1gb ram. For example, right clicking MY COMPUTER and hitting properties will give me the box instantly. BUT. I also have a laptop, and have connected laptop and desktop VIA a 10 meter CROSSOVER cable. Set up the workgroup, everything works fine, I can play against laptop and share files fine. But when first entering windows, it takes about 5 minutes to initiate this "network" and have a proper connection. Before this five minutes, windows is slow, I cannot at all access MY NETWORK PLACES (doing so lags the explorer for about a minute 'till I force it to close) and, in this five or so minutes, right clicking on MY COMPUTER will NOT open the box, at all. I will get a few seconds of hourglass then it just stops, and no box opens. It is only after the network connection is fully functioning that the property box just opens, then everything is sweet. WHY? Can I stop this? Is my cable slow or faulty, is there an option in windows xp to have "quick network" or something? Desktop running WINXP PRO SP1 and laptop running WINXP HOME SP1. Thanks. |
Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 203504 | 2003-12-27 23:41:00 | could try buying a hub | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203505 | 2003-12-28 00:40:00 | Check you firewall. Can you ping both ways? Windows always has problems with the Network Neighbourhood and showing computers in it. You can help this by forceing one PC to be the browse master. |
ugh1 (4204) | ||
| 203506 | 2003-12-28 01:09:00 | I'd advise you to give both PC's static IP addresses. Give your Desktop 192.168.0.1 with no Gateway, and then give your laptop 192.168.0.2 with 192.168.0.1 as Gateway, and for DNS: 202.27.184.3 202.27.184.5 Then try it |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 203507 | 2003-12-28 01:44:00 | It's Windows slowly getting itself networked. :D A hub won't help. Your cables are OK. It's just that after finally realising that networks exist, and that TCP/IP is the standard, MS have now started trying to "improve" it. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 203508 | 2003-12-28 03:27:00 | I'd say go with the static IP idea too. I've got a Windows 2000 box, and despite not being plugged into any network, it wastes about a minute attempting to get an IP assigned by DHCP, seeing as it used to be on a network. |
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