Re: Slow Excel saving on SBS

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If this is really a hub and not a switch I would change that out. It's a $40
investment if you stay on 100 and $80 if you go to 1000. Hubs send packets
through ALL ports where switches send them only to the designated port. This
will make a huge difference.

What kind of drives are on the server?
What software is running on the server?
What time are you looking at if you open a 2-4 MB Word file?

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Did somebody knows a solution for this ?

Small network 2003SBS (Xeon/2GB/160G raid1) + 6 PC's
PC's are XP Pro, logged on to the domain.
Network traffic is rather slow (100Mb and hub instead of switch) but it's
ok (copy 135MB in 60 sec - 2.3kByte/s).
No DNS problems. Everything works normal. Nothing special in the event
logs.
Antivirus Symantec Corporate Edition disabled to be sure.

Only problem : Opening Excel files on the SBS share is slow, saving is
very slow.

Examples :
file of 50kB : +/- 3 seconds
file of 1.5MB : opening 10 sec and saving 35 sec

When opening the files locally on the PC's : no delay !

Before they had a Linux (Mandrake) server with the same PC's, hubs and
cabling and this problem was not there.

Seems w2003SBS is checking something in the excel files and times out ...

Thanks for reactions !



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