XP SP2 and a slow network.

[ASM]

I have a workgroup network at work running 6 workstation running 4 ME and 2 XP and I recently had to re install XP pro on the server machine and I downloaded SP2 and now my network is horrible slow as well as the workstations too. Could this had been due to SP2. Before the crash the network was ok.

 

[Interrogative]

I have a workgroup network at work running 6 workstation running 4 ME and
2 XP and I recently had to re install XP
pro on the server machine and I downloaded SP2 and now my network is
horrible slow as well as the workstations too. > Could this had been due
to SP2. Before the crash the network was ok.

Your network may have been set back to auto assign for IPs which is why this
would be happening. Set all machines to their IP addresses manually and it
helps.

 

[ASM]

three of my machines are not online and have no IP assigned, my isp gave us
5 static IP's how can i add IP to the other machines should I just use the
next three in a row?

 

[Interrogative]

You could set up a workgroup for those 3 and bridge it to Internet. On the
workgroup, assign them 192.168.0.x numbers. On the other XP machines just
make sure their static IP is assigned. For any reason, it may have reverted
to auto assign.

 

[ASM]

if I did this should this help with the browsing of the network, I have been
doing a little reading and a lot of post say to remove the registry entry
about the scheduled tasks finder for other machines.

 

[Interrogative]

No idea why you would have to remove that entry. I have 2 x XPSP2 and 2 x
98SE on this network. I have customers with W2k, XPSP2, XPSP1 etc on their
networks and I routinely manually assign LAN numbers for the fact that some
3rd party hardware has trouble operating with dynamically assigned IPs and
also XP has always been notoriously slow to work on the network unless
manually assigned. Once manually assigned, things work properly.