Why is ONE XP PC slow for local network access? 1

[BobMCT]

This may be slightly OT but because it occurs only on a single XP SP3 desktop I feel it might be related to XP. So any recommendations here appreciated.

I have a half dozen systems in my internal/home network, 3 XP SP3 and 3 Linux. On ONE of my XP SP3 systems which is directly wired to a 100mbs switch address resolution to my local web server is turtles slow (5-10 secs per access). However, on my wireless XP SP3 laptops and my Linux boxes the access is as fast as one can expect. This has only started occurring over the past 1-2 months.

I've tried entering my local domain names and internal IPs in both the \windows\system32\lmhost and \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file(s) including using the #PRE declarative to hopefully eliminate any external DNS resolution. But this made NO difference. In fact, the more I access the slower this seems to become. Again, ONLY on this ONE machine.

So, while this might be more of a network question, I'm picking anyone's brain because this is localized on an XP machine.

Thanks for ANY guidance and recommendations provided.

 

[RuralGuy]

Have you tried another NIC to eliminate the hardeare?

RuralGuy (RG for short) aka Allan Bunch MS Access MVP acXP winXP Pro
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[goombawaho]

Network card driver update

Network card diagnostics

Network card replacement

Try wireless on that machine to eliminate the rest of the machine aside from the NIC. (via a wireless USB adapter if you have one)

Malware????

 

[linney]

What is access like via "Safe Mode with Networking"? This will give you an inclination as to whether some third party process may be causing your problem.

 

[mscallisto]

In addition to a bad NIC it could be bad cable, bad wireing between switch and user, bad switch port etc.; switch places with a PC that works to confirm or eliminate the above.

 

[BobMCT]

Thank you all for the suggestions. Linney's recommendation to try it in safe mode with networking proved that all the hardware was working fine as the network performance snapped back. Therefore I used msconfig to disable MANY of the junk that somehow had been injected into my startup. Amazing how many vendors unknowingly insert this stuff. Now performance is pretty much back to normal.

Thanks all again!

 

[RuralGuy]

Excellent! Thanks for posting back with your success.

RuralGuy (RG for short) aka Allan Bunch MS Access MVP acXP winXP Pro
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[jackdashack]

I had this same problem onetime. I had two Toshiba laptops. One was about a year older than another. The older one would hold a steady 54Mbps wireless. The newer one would start there and degrade. Nothing seemed to help. Then someone pointed out that I probably had 2 different wireless adapters/cards (right word? bad call when I'm supposed to be a pro to be here) 2 different wireless adapters and the slower one needed an upgraded driver. I went and found it, installed it and things have been hunky dorey ever since. (can men use the word "hunky") Anyway it runs like hades! jack

 

[dippncope]

hunky" fails the man test. Chunky is OK as long as your friends dont see