When browsing through shared folders and network computers Explorer can slow down when it is searching the local network for printers. This sounds like a great feature and may be useful for some but I would rather disable it to get maximum performance when browsing through folders.
PathPing is a network troubleshooting tool that combines the functions of two other utilities: Ping and Traceroute. It’s used to diagnose network issues by measuring both the latency and packet loss along the route between your computer and a destination (like a website or server). When you run PathPing, it first sends packets to every router along the… Read More »
There are a lot of things which can negatively impact how fast XP will browse network shares.
You may experience intermittent communication failure between computers that are running Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003, if the network adapter is configured to use checksum offloading and the Windows Firewall is turned on. To workaround this behavior, turn off checksum offloading on the network adapter: 1. Open a CMD.EXE window. 2. Type the following command and press… Read More »
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a network protocol used to map an IP address to a physical machine (or MAC) address on a local area network (LAN). It is a crucial part of the Internet Protocol suite and operates at the Link Layer (Layer 2) of the OSI model.
Few chores are as frustrating as debugging a small network. The last time I did it, I cursed colorfully enough to embarrass Quentin Tarantino. The one thing we can be certain of is that there’s no problem with your hardware–the successful Internet access tells us that.