Browsing Network Takes Forever!

[Pollux]

Ok, i'm certain people have run into this problem before. On my home network, there are about 6 computers. 5 of them run win 98. but my laptop has win 2000 on it. When i'm trying to browse the network from my laptop. it literally takes 50-60 seconds to view the information on another computer, but when i'm browsing with one of the win 98 computers it only takes a matter of seconds. Can somebody please tell my why this is? any way to solve this annoying problem? thanks
-pollux

[a Bill]

Your other computers have already looked over the network while the network is new territory to the laptop. I don't know a work around, I just let the laptop search out the "new" network.

[cyclone2]

I dont have an answer for you just a confirmation that you are not the only one. On my comps 98 searchs network fast and 2000 is a dog, only thing I can think of is the security overhead or we are not configured properly somewhere.

[Pollux]

thanks abill and cyclone2,
i think that you are right cyclone2, either we don't have something configured right, or it just takes 2000 forever to browse a 98 computer (which does sound strange to me). I hope that somebody knows a setting somewhere that can speed this up becvause it's rather frustrating.
thanks
-pollux

[a Bill]

I'd like to see a fix for it too http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I have two Win95 boxes that are opposites of each other when it comes to browsing the network. One sees everything right away while the other one takes a while. Both were set up as near identically as I could but they act like totally different systems http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif