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highly unreliable connection to network storage drives
Until yesterday network consisted of 5 PC's (3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home - a
little netbook, and 1 Vista Home Ultimate). 3 of the PC's connect via wireless, 2 by ethernet. Internet connection is via ADSL2 and the modem acts as the router. Other things on network include a Print Server and a Buffalo LinkStation Mini network storage. Until yesterday everything working fine - all PC's could print through print server and all could see and use shared drives on the network storage. Yesterday added new laptop (Acer Aspire) running Vista Home Premium which is connecting by wireless. Have put it into same Workgroup as everything else and everything working fine EXCEPT it really doesn't like communicating with the Buffalo LinkStation. It can see the LinkStation (called SharedDrive) and I mapped three drives by IP Address and name (eg \\192.168.1.67\Photos). It seemed to be very slow displaying the contents of those drives but eventually they show up in Computer. But when I double click one the window opens with the little circle thing going round and round; after a long delay it shows the directories and files in the drive but that round thing keeps going round and eventually Windows Explorer stops responding. I can connect to other PCs on the network and copy files - and performance is quite acceptable. I have tried turning off McAffee firewall and iPv6 - to no avail. Any ideas? |
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highly unreliable connection to network storage drives
You may try to disable auto tuning for a test. These search results may
help. a.. Vista Slow Issues Disable the automatic adjustment (Auto Tuning) for the TCP window size on the network. To do this, follow these steps: Click Start , type cmd and press ... www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaslow.htm - Similar pages a.. Troubleshooting Vista connectivity issues Cause and Solution: By default, the Receive Window Auto-Tuning feature in ... This command enables Receive Window Auto-Tuning again so that you can take ... http://www.chicagotech.net/netissues...nectivity1.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Peter" wrote in message ... Until yesterday network consisted of 5 PC's (3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home - a little netbook, and 1 Vista Home Ultimate). 3 of the PC's connect via wireless, 2 by ethernet. Internet connection is via ADSL2 and the modem acts as the router. Other things on network include a Print Server and a Buffalo LinkStation Mini network storage. Until yesterday everything working fine - all PC's could print through server and all could see and use shared drives on the network storage. Yesterday added new laptop (Acer Aspire) running Vista Home Premium which is connecting by wireless. Have put it into same Workgroup as everything else and everything working fine EXCEPT it really doesn't like communicating with the Buffalo LinkStation. It can see the LinkStation (called SharedDrive) and I mapped three drives by IP Address and name (eg \\192.168.1.67\Photos). It seemed to be very slow displaying the contents of those drives but eventually they show up in Computer. But when I double click one the window opens with the little circle thing going round and round; after a long delay it shows the directories and files in the drive but that round thing keeps going round and eventually Windows Explorer stops responding. I can connect to other PCs on the network and copy files - and performance is quite acceptable. I have tried turning off McAffee firewall and iPv6 - to no avail. Any ideas? |
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highly unreliable connection to network storage drives
Robert,
Thanks for that suggestion, but: at command prompt entered netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled and got a reply: Set global command failed on IPv$ The requested operation requires elevation. I tried lifting the machine to a higher elevation - but nothing changed! :-) Does anyone know what this means. I have put the latest formware on the Buffalo - but problem persists. Accessing other PCs on the network is problem free! Peter "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote: You may try to disable auto tuning for a test. These search results may help. a.. Vista Slow Issues Disable the automatic adjustment (Auto Tuning) for the TCP window size on the network. To do this, follow these steps: Click Start , type cmd and press ... www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaslow.htm - Similar pages a.. Troubleshooting Vista connectivity issues Cause and Solution: By default, the Receive Window Auto-Tuning feature in ... This command enables Receive Window Auto-Tuning again so that you can take ... http://www.chicagotech.net/netissues...nectivity1.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Peter" wrote in message ... Until yesterday network consisted of 5 PC's (3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home - a little netbook, and 1 Vista Home Ultimate). 3 of the PC's connect via wireless, 2 by ethernet. Internet connection is via ADSL2 and the modem acts as the router. Other things on network include a Print Server and a Buffalo LinkStation Mini network storage. Until yesterday everything working fine - all PC's could print through server and all could see and use shared drives on the network storage. Yesterday added new laptop (Acer Aspire) running Vista Home Premium which is connecting by wireless. Have put it into same Workgroup as everything else and everything working fine EXCEPT it really doesn't like communicating with the Buffalo LinkStation. It can see the LinkStation (called SharedDrive) and I mapped three drives by IP Address and name (eg \\192.168.1.67\Photos). It seemed to be very slow displaying the contents of those drives but eventually they show up in Computer. But when I double click one the window opens with the little circle thing going round and round; after a long delay it shows the directories and files in the drive but that round thing keeps going round and eventually Windows Explorer stops responding. I can connect to other PCs on the network and copy files - and performance is quite acceptable. I have tried turning off McAffee firewall and iPv6 - to no avail. Any ideas? |