Forum Home
Press F1
 
Thread ID: 22246 2002-07-15 06:47:00 XP network slow file acess gaxxa (666) Press F1
Post ID Timestamp Content User
62776 2002-07-15 06:47:00 hi, I've talked about this before, with some helpfull feedback - thanks

does anyone know what QOS services are?

is it helpfull/or not to enable IEEE?

someone suggested I check wether services availabliity was being checked on the other computers, or something like that, could someone give more details please

I noticed that on the 'slow' machines the user had a directory with 100's of directories in that one directory, with only a couple of files in each of those directories. I hadn't come across this before could that be a factor?

thanks
gaxxa (666)
62777 2002-07-16 10:12:00 Quality of service is typical of Microsoft services. It can suck up bandwidth, but will release it whenever the bandwidth is not being used and something else wants it. It should not be a problem
support.microsoft.com
IEEE is for wireless - do you use that?
www.microsoft.com
Are you only running TCP/IP? I have not read your other posts.
Marty2001 (421)
62778 2002-07-16 12:03:00 yes i'm only running tcp which XP seems to default to

would something else be better?

i'm running some non XP machines on the network
gaxxa (666)
62779 2002-07-17 02:28:00 TCP/IP will probably be the best. There won't be much in it, but you are better off with one protocol than two or more.

A machine with "hundreds" of directories containing a few files each will always be slower to supply files than one with a few directories and hundreds of files in each. If you are moving lots of files, you'll notice a difference.
Graham L (2)
62780 2002-07-17 11:29:00 Do you have a hosts file or lmhosts file?
This will allow the PCs to resolve names much faster in a peer to peer network
Marty2001 (421)
62781 2002-07-19 05:19:00 ahhh

I don't know what you are talking about

where would I find such things?
gaxxa (666)
62782 2002-07-19 06:01:00 Name resolving does not take long. If it works, don't "fix" it. Graham L (2)
62783 2002-07-19 08:08:00 I have seen name resolving take ages on a small network. Name resolving is faster if you use Netbeui because it broadcasts everywhere for a NETBIOS name resolution - but this also slows the network due to that fact.
The LMHost file has a sample file which you can read and then save as lmhost (instead of lmhost.sam)
The host file is used in the same manner
I would add the files to each PC
LMHost replaces a WINs server (for name resolution in a LAN with W95/98 PCs)and Hosts is used for DNS lookups (W2000/XP)
Here is a link
www.computerhope.com
If it is still slow, then there may be an authentication delay.
Is the slow PC, slow from all PCs trying to access it or just the XP machines?
Marty2001 (421)
1