Home Network is REALLY Sluggish

[Jason Swad]

I've set up a home network with the computers in my
home. My OS is XP, but the others are '98. They can see
me and access my computer very quickly, but my computer
takes forever to see the other computers on the network,
and when it does it is very slow accessing the files.
When I clicked "Repair This Connection" it said that it
couldn't renew the IP address. Any help would be
GREAT!!!!!!

Thanks!

[Steve Winograd]

In article >, "Jason Swad"
> wrote:
>I've set up a home network with the computers in my
>home. My OS is XP, but the others are '98. They can see
>me and access my computer very quickly, but my computer
>takes forever to see the other computers on the network,
>and when it does it is very slow accessing the files.
>When I clicked "Repair This Connection" it said that it
>couldn't renew the IP address. Any help would be
>GREAT!!!!!!
>
>Thanks!

I've written a web page with some possible fixes and work-arounds:

Slow Network Browsing in My Network Places
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/slowbrowse01.htm
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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