Re: Win XP, slow Explorer performance over WAN

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From: Brian (b_dyke_at_web.de)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:53:04 +0200

"Chris Szilagyi" <chris@groupinfo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2aab79d7.0408060647.30f9dd07@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to pinpoint a problem with users in XP Pro, that are
> browsing files & folders over a 256k WAN link to our Win 2000 file
> server in Windows Explorer. Simply going into one folder to the next
> can take 30 seconds to a minute. The XP Pro workstations are new (2.6
> P4, 256 MB RAM, 10/100 NIC, etc).
>
> The problem is more noticeable when browsing folders that have a large
> number of JPG & GIF image files (1200+). From our testing, this
> problem only appears to happen on Win XP Pro workstations, Win 2000
> and NT 4 seem fine so far going over this same WAN link. We have
> already done preliminary steps like updating drivers, Windows update,
> modifying TCP Rx size, on the XP workstation, and tested our WAN link
> for errors...all is fine.
>
> If anybody can shed any light on this one, that would be great. Thank
> you very much for all feedback and suggestions!
>
> --
> Chris

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