Slow XP Network

[dawgfan1606]

Had two Win2K machines networked using TCP/IP...all was fine. Did clean install of XP Pro on both machines, using same hardware and network IP address...yada yada yada. Now, my network will not run at 100 MPS. It takes about 5 minutes to see the other computers...another minute to see the shared folders and several minutes to open a 1MB file. If I drop the network to 10MPS...it runs fine. I have read that using NTFS and XP will slow down networking and cause collisions.

Tried networking my brothers computer and his wife's Win2K machine and same thing occurs.

What am I missing with XP and networking?

 

[rjkrash]

Have you got the XP drivers for the NICs from the manufacturer? If you found this helpful let us know by voting below.

 

[dawgfan1606]

Yes...I do have the latest XP drivers

 

[rjkrash]

How do you "drop" to 10 Mbps?

On the Advanced tab of the NIC properties try setting the Link Speed & Duplex of the NIC to 100/Duplex spcifically rather than Auto Detect.

Also just to be sure because I have heard it causes slow downs disable network access control using IEEE 802.1X on the Authentification tab of Local Area Connection Properties If you found this helpful let us know by voting below.

 

[dawgfan1606]

I went into NIC configuration/advanced/media type and selected 10T. I will try disabling the IEEE thing tomorrow. Thanks for your help. I know it is something simple (as it always is) just a matter of figuring it out.

 

[rjkrash]

All I can think of is that one the NIC cards are not really getting into 100Mbps mode. Do you have a config utility for the cards (DOS mode) where you can set the speed of the cards in the NICs firmware. I remember a while ago, before XP, I had a situation where one card was not really in 100 Mbps on a network where all others were and it slowed everything down because of collisions. Just a thought. This seems strange.

Have you applied the WinXP updates? Particularly the first one that came out right after release. If not do so I have seen it fix a lot of wierd problems. If you found this helpful let us know by voting below.

 

[bgauntt]

Another option to try is using the tweaks at

http://www.speedguide.net

These tweaks have made my computer run twice as fast on the Internet through the network. It is worth a try at least.