Peer to peer network problem.

[Dana]

"Dana" <fighttheleft@dnclosers.com> wrote in message news:...

> Hiya:
> Had a problem with the boss's computer today. What we have is a small peer
> to peer network, all computers 5 computers are XP, with P6 processors. My
> boss complained that his computer was slow. I found out his ram chip 128M,
> was only letting computer use 80M of ram. The Ram was defective, and since
> the boss has a nice p6 1600, I convinced him to getting some more Ram
> anyway. So now he went out and got two 512M ram ddr chips. Well that

really

> fixed his speed problem. But then we noticed that on the peer to peer
> network, which really was not used prior to today, on just the boss's
> computer when he tries to open either a word doc, pdf file, or access
> database from another computer on the network, the application hangs, and
> even using task manager is difficult to kill the process. Using the same
> network connection to access the internet gives no problem at all. And now
> with the increased ram, his load time of pages is just great. It is only
> trying to access documents over the peer to peer network where

applications

> hang. Can anyone give any pointers into what I should look at. All the

other

> computers are working fine, and they can open and read documents of the
> boss's computer. While on the peer to peer network, and during the
> application trying to run, CPU utilization does not go out of

normal/typical

> usage, but I did notice that there is hardly any network transfer speed.
> Might be reading at about .3, to 0.
> Thanks
>
>

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

check the hardware settings such as nic, switch and hub. for example
configure the computers' network cards for half duplex.
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> "Dana" <fighttheleft@dnclosers.com> wrote in message news:...

> > Hiya:
> > Had a problem with the boss's computer today. What we have is a small

peer

> > to peer network, all computers 5 computers are XP, with P6 processors.

My

> > boss complained that his computer was slow. I found out his ram chip

128M,

> > was only letting computer use 80M of ram. The Ram was defective, and

since

> > the boss has a nice p6 1600, I convinced him to getting some more Ram
> > anyway. So now he went out and got two 512M ram ddr chips. Well that

> really

> > fixed his speed problem. But then we noticed that on the peer to peer
> > network, which really was not used prior to today, on just the boss's
> > computer when he tries to open either a word doc, pdf file, or access
> > database from another computer on the network, the application hangs,

and

> > even using task manager is difficult to kill the process. Using the same
> > network connection to access the internet gives no problem at all. And

now

> > with the increased ram, his load time of pages is just great. It is only
> > trying to access documents over the peer to peer network where

> applications

> > hang. Can anyone give any pointers into what I should look at. All the

> other

> > computers are working fine, and they can open and read documents of the
> > boss's computer. While on the peer to peer network, and during the
> > application trying to run, CPU utilization does not go out of

> normal/typical

> > usage, but I did notice that there is hardly any network transfer speed.
> > Might be reading at about .3, to 0.
> > Thanks
> >
> >

>
>