Very slow netbios browsing after SP2 update

From: George Bromell (george.bromell_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:36:04 +1200

I thought I posted this last night but can't find it in this newsgroup today
so am posting again - hopefully you are not all receiving this a second
time.

I have 4 computers on a home network connected via an ADSL modem come
router,
all running XP. After allowing auto update to install SP2 on 2 of the
computers I noticed that NetBIOS browsing to these from the remaining two
was very slow (25 seconds to open up the first window showing shared
resources on the SP2 PC). IP connectivity is still fine (pings echo within
1ms) and once you have opened a window to a directory on the remote PC, file
transfers occur at about 65Mbps but the initial delay is a real pain.

I have tried uninstalling SP2 but the slow NetBIOS problem remains on both
PCs. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks George

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