Win XP, slow Explorer performance over WAN

[Chris Szilagyi]

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!

 

[Brian]

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!

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