re: NETBEUI in Windows XP
Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 7:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nords
(2 messages posted)
I have a problem networking XP to a 98SE machine. I previously had two 98SE machines
networking with no problems at all, using Netbeui, as you described in your post.
Speed was good, good response time, no problems, and safe. I have recently upgraded
the main 98SE machine to WinXP. I've setup ICS, which works, but what's strange
is that the 98SE client machine gets better bandwidth than the host WinXP machine.
I've done broadband tweaks on both, but XP nearly cuts in half my downstream bandwidth.
Anyway, the main point, is that the WinXP host machine is terribly slow at accessing
the shared folders on the client 98SE machine. I thought installing Netbeui would
solve it, but apparently it refuses to use Netbeui alone(which I could do with two
98SE machines). Am I doing something wrong? Could you detail, as much as you like,
how you have your WinXP network setup? I can access the other machine, but it seems
only with TCP/IP, and it's really slow in response... it generally takes about 10
seconds or more for the folder list to come up, and I have a 100mbps switch with
100mbps full duplex NIC's. As I said, this wasn't a problem with 2 98SE machines
with Netbeui, fast... but WinXP is having speed problems and I've tried just about
all the setting options I can imagine. Thanks for any insight.
So in summary I would like advice on two things:
* Improving/Understanding the slower downstream performance of the Winxp host machine
in comparison to the 'faster' client Win98SE(that goes through the WinXP machine!)
* Improving/Understanding the slow response time and performance of my WinXP host
to Win98SE client in accessing shared files. It takes 10 seconds or more to access
anything, and I can't seem to copy anything
either. Also, exclusively using Netbeui as the file sharing protocol instead of
TCP or IPX.
I appreciate your time and knowledge.
If anyone else has any ideas, please post, thanks.
- Written in response to:
- NETBEUI in Windows XP (Mike Mitchell: Friday, October 5, 2001 at 10:14 pm)
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